Laszlo Ersek of Red Hat has a huge patch to Tianocore, which adds SMM to OVMF, and just posted a detailed status update to the EDK2-devel mailing list, The current test results of patch look impressive! Pretend the following table is using a fixed font:
accel bits guest OS OS boots efibootmgr works on S3 resume
—– —- ————— ——– ——————- ———
TCG 32 Fedlet 20141209 pass[1] BSP and AP pass
TCG 64 F21 XFCE LiveCD pass[1] BSP and AP fail[2]
KVM 32 Fedlet 20141209 pass BSP and AP pass
KVM 64 F21 XFCE LiveCD pass BSP and AP fail[2]
KVM 64 Windows 8.1 pass n/a fail[2]
I’ve excerpted the key items from the TODO section of the status report: 🙂
* TODO:
– celebrate a bit this weekend (look at that “OS boots” column!)
– celebrate some more?
Full status report (including most of the details, and the omitted footnotes listed above):
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.edk2.devel/3357
(Also note that the EDK2-devel mailing list, which recently moved from SourceForge.net to Intel’s 01.org, is now hosted on Gmane under the gmane.bios.edk2 namespace. The previous SourceForge list is listed under the gmane.bios.tianocore namespace.)
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