Cc'ing Michael and Daniel
On 28/11/25 10:25, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> This is somewhat related to the bigger question how we want move forward
> with firmware builds in the qemu repo ...
>
> qemu got uefi variable store support in version 10.0. With the pending
> edk2 firmware update (patches are on the list right now) edk2 is new
> enough that support for the qemu variable store is present in the code
> base. This is a compile time option though, so it needs separate
> firmware images. This little patch series adds them.
>
> The big question is if we want go down that route. The images are not
> essential for qemu itself. The test cases for the acpi tables use the
> firmware images for the traditional, pflash-based efi variable store
> and can continue to do so.
>
> So, do we want add them? For qemu developer / user convenience? Or
> leave that to linux distributions? Fedora already ships builds (see
> /usr/share/edk2/*/*qemuvars*).
>
> take care,
> Gerd
>
> Gerd Hoffmann (2):
> edk2: add qemuvars builds to config
> edk2: add qemuvars build binaries
>
> pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-qemuvars.fd.bz2 | Bin 0 -> 1621714 bytes
> pc-bios/edk2-x86_64-qemuvars.fd.bz2 | Bin 0 -> 2095693 bytes
> roms/edk2-build.config | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-qemuvars.fd.bz2
> create mode 100644 pc-bios/edk2-x86_64-qemuvars.fd.bz2
>