OVMF-notes.txt

Building OVMF
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# Add tools and build dependencies:
apt-get update
apt-get install build-essential git lintian debhelper iasl nasm \
  python uuid-dev -y


git clone https://github.com/tianocore/edk2
cd edk2
make -C BaseTools
. edksetup.sh BaseTools
build -a X64 -t GCC5 -p OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc -b RELEASE

(OBSOLETE) The included blobs were built from commit 2913ebb2b550f50a.


Host OS
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OVMF blobs (OVMF_CODE.fd, OVMF_VARS.fd) were built on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
LTS based on https://github.com/thenickdude/edk2/tree/macos-support (commit
d0976b9acce and d16b0bf52e).

Older OVMF blobs (OVMF_CODE.fd, OVMF_VARS.fd) were built on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
(Trusty Tahr).

OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd and OVMF_VARS-pure-efi.fd files (in backup folder) come
from the "edk2.git-ovmf-x64-0-20170922.b3006.gfe4049471b.noarch.rpm" archive
downloaded from https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/edk2/ site.


References
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* https://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/

* https://www.nicksherlock.com/2018/04/patch-ovmf-to-support-macos-in-proxmox-5-1/

* https://github.com/thenickdude/edk2 (macos-support branch)