[PATCH v5 00/46] x86: Use qemu-x86_64 to boot EFI installers

[Bin Meng]

Hi Simon,

On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 11:39 AM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> This series adds various minor features so that qemu-x86_64 can boot the
> Ubuntu 2022.04 installer using a virtio device:
>
>     qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc -drive format=raw,file=root.img
>         -bios /tmp/b/qemu-x86_64/u-boot.rom
>         -drive if=virtio,file=ubuntu-22.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso
>         -smp 4 -m 4G -serial mon:stdio
>
> The main changes include:
> - Enable video in SPL while running in 32-bit mode
> - Drop the duplicate ACPI tables with EFI
> - Support PCI autoconfig in SPL
> - Support FAT on a CDROM filesystem
> - Improved bootstd rules around device tree and efi_set_bootdev()
>
> There are also quite a number of minor tweaks and fixes to make things
> easier to use.
>
> This series is based on an older version of the SPL-video series from
> Nikhil M Jain. It is available at u-boot-dm/bryc-working
>
> Changes in v5:
> - Make mtrr_type_name[] static
> - Fix 'abrievated' typo
> - Drop extra space in penultimate example
> - Drop unnecessary 'it' in commit message
> - Adjust the prompt for clarity (although it is now >12 chars)
> - Reword commit message
> - Drop unnecessary 'allow' word
> - Add tests for bdinfo additions
> - Drop extra 'qfw list' line
> - Update commit message to explain 'md' reference
> - Drop period at end of commit subject
> - Drop extra 'a' in commit message
> - Add 'bdinfo' tag to commit subject
> - Use the existing QEMU code instead
> - Use u16 instead of ushort
> - Split out banner code into a separate patch
> - Drop code to ensure the SPL banner is only shown once
> - Fix 'litlle' typo in subject
> - Correct indentation
> - Add a comment about QFW putting its tables up high
> - Add a comment that the bloblist is always in high memory
> - Use "gpio" for log return
> - Use QEMU instead of qemu
> - Drop patch 'Show the number of physical address bits'
>

Except the following patches:

[v5,02/46] x86: Return mtrr_add_request() to its old purpose
[v5,23/46] pci: Allow the video BIOS to work in SPL with QEMU
[v5,34/46] fs: fat: Support reading from a larger block size

series applied to u-boot-x86, thanks!

I will take a look at the MTRR one.

Regards,
Bin