On 8 February 2017 at 19:23, Laszlo Ersek <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/08/17 19:32, Peter Maydell wrote: >> Would making UEFI a >> more "official" rom image in pc-bios/ help to >> harmonise things, or just introduce yet another >> possibility to the mix? > > On one hand, it would be the best possible solution. I believe we've > been thinking on-and-off about bundling OVMF and ArmVirtQemu with QEMU, > since FatPkg in edk2 became free software. (... Because Microsoft > graciously liberated the license, after Intel worked with them for a > looong time on that. Kudos again to both companies!) > > On the other hand, upstream edk2 doesn't do releases (not in the "whole > community stabilization / soft freeze / hard freeze / merge window > closed" sense anyway). So Gerd -- because it would fall under Gerd's > maintainership I think -- would have to deal with yet another project > like iPXE (no releases). It's up to him, I guess.
Yes, since I don't personally have the time or expertise this definitely comes down to "does whoever would be doing the work think it's a good idea or not". thanks -- PMM
