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> References: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1704011454040.1243@z.fncre.vasb> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1704011547270.1243@z.fncre.vasb> <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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