User:Pjones/KvmEFI

Virtual UEFI

The idea here is to build UEFI binary firmware images from the BSD-licensed code at edk2.tianocore.org which can be used with KVM instead of the Bochs BIOS images.

To Do list

• have a look at https://edk2.tianocore.org/OVMF.html
• Make edk2-devel package (needed to build BaseTools and uefi-firmware)
• Make edk2-BaseTools package
• Make uefi-firmware package, analogous to the bochs-bios package.
  • Make FDF file
    • what needs loaded where? Mostly this matters because it's non-PIC code, I *think*
  • Make DSC file
  • Make DEC file
  • Drivers
    • GOP
    • SerialPort
    • FileSystem ?
    • I/O
• Figure out how to load new bios in KVM
  • should be really easy
  • isn't all that easy because of things like video memory allocation that's not really designed for a non-BIOS setup.
• supporting software
  • liblvm support
  • virt-manager needs some UI

Miscellany

• suspend/resume
  • probably need a custom S3 handler?
  • S5 should be normal
• MacOS X support
  • emulated (faked) DMI/ACPI info?
  • do we need graphics drivers for MacOS to do this?
    • they have a vesa driver, so that's one route.
• Windows 7 support
  • Probably don't need DMI/ACPI tricks
  • no vga bios, so probably do need graphics drivers. Or maybe just fake the VGA BIOS, since it doesn't need to do much.