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Date:      Mon, 3 Apr 2017 09:58:00 +0100
From:      Roger Pau =?iso-8859-1?Q?Monn=E9?= <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To:        Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info>
Cc:        <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: UEFI trouble with OVMF under Xen - nothing boots - SOLVED
Message-ID:  <20170403085800.utw7wialhz4e5kl2@dhcp-3-128.uk.xensource.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1704012227150.1243@z.fncre.vasb>
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On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 10:30:43PM +0000, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2017, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 1 Apr 2017, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> > 
> > > This is a follow up to the UEFI Windows boot problems
> > > reported after 4.7 got imported:
> > > 
> > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xen/2016-June/002745.html
> > > 
> > > I am using FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #6 r314708: Mon Mar  6 13:09:31 UTC 2017     root@o.saper.info:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 as dom0
> > > 
> > > In the 4.5 times I could install and boot Windows 2016 Technical Preview 5 without
> > > major problems. In fact, I started using this as my default Windows
> > > environment - it was working very well and very fast.
> > 
> 
> So, for the archives:
> 
> I have compiled the newest OVMF git master in the DEBUG mode and found out
> that under normal qemu both I/O debug port 0x402 logging or serial port logging
> (depending how OVMF got compiled) do work.
> 
> I have never been getting debug output from the OVMF started by Xen.
> What I didn't know is that firmware images are compiled into the hvmloader
> so that just replacing the ovmf.bin DOES NOT work.
> 
> I must have had a 32-bit ovmf.bin on the filesystem when I was compiling
> xen-tools; after replacing it with a 64-bit version and rebuilding
> xen-tools things started to work.

Sorry for not being able to help. Now that you got this working, do you think
you could send a patch(es) to add OVMF support to the xen-tools package? I'm
more than happy to add this functionality (and maintain the OVMF package if
needed).

Thanks, Roger.



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