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authorjljusten <jljusten@6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524>2012-07-10 22:43:19 +0000
committerjljusten <jljusten@6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524>2012-07-10 22:43:19 +0000
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embed OvmfVideo.rom into OVMF.fd
This enables qemu to use OVMF with a single -bios option. Based on <http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-03/msg01992.html>. v1->v2: - move xen-devel link from code to commit message - cover all three FDF files Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0 Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com> [jordan.l.justen@intel.com: remove vgabios-cirrus.bin from build.sh/README] Signed-off-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com> git-svn-id: https://edk2.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/edk2/trunk/edk2@13520 6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524
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* QEMU 0.9.1 or later is required.
* Either copy, rename or symlink OVMF.FD => bios.bin
-* Either copy, rename or symlink OvmfVideo.rom => vgabios-cirrus.bin
* Be sure to use qemu-system-x86_64, if you are using and X64 firmware.
(qemu-system-x86_64 works for the IA32 firmware as well, of course.)
* Use the QEMU -L parameter to specify the directory where the bios.bin
- and vgabios-cirrus.bin files are located.
+ file is located.
* Optionally you can use the QEMU -serial command to capture the
OVMF debug messages. For example: -serial file:serial.log
* The EFI shell is built into OVMF builds at this time, so it should