audk/OvmfPkg/Microvm
Pierre Gondois 2f981bddcb MdeModulePkg: Duplicate BaseRngLibTimerLib to MdeModulePkg
BZ: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4504

The BaseRngLibTimerLib allows to generate number based on a timer.
This mechanism allows to have a basic non-secure implementation
for non-production platforms.
To bind and identify Random Number Generators implementations with
a GUID, an unsafe GUID should be added. This GUID cannot be added
to the MdePkg unless it is also added to a specification.

To keep the MdePkg self-contained, copy the BaseRngLibTimerLib to
the MdeModulePkg. This will allow to define an unsafe Rng GUID
in a later patch in the MdeModulePkg.

The MdePkg implementation will be removed later. This allows to give
some time to platform owners to switch to the MdeModulePkg
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sami Mujawar <sami.mujawar@arm.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Kun Qin <kun.qin@microsoft.com>
2023-09-08 09:48:55 +00:00
..
MicrovmX64.dsc MdeModulePkg: Duplicate BaseRngLibTimerLib to MdeModulePkg 2023-09-08 09:48:55 +00:00
MicrovmX64.fdf OvmfPkg/Microvm: Replace the OVMF-specific SataControllerDxe 2023-06-01 18:08:33 +00:00
README OvmfPkg/Microvm/pcie: add pcie support 2022-06-03 09:06:44 +00:00

README

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This is an *experimental* port of OVMF for the QEMU microvm
machine type.

microvm background info
-----------------------

microvm is designed for modern, virtio-based workloads.  Most legacy
lpc/isa devices like pit and pic can be turned off.  virtio-mmio
(i.e. '-device virtio-{blk,net,scsi,...}-device') is used for
storage/network/etc.

Optional pcie support is available and any pcie device supported by
QEMU can be plugged in (including virtio-pci if you prefer that over
virtio-mmio).

https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/i386/microvm.html
https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2020/10/qemu-microvm-acpi/

design issues
-------------

Not fully clear yet how to do hardware detection best.  Right now
using device tree to find virtio-mmio devices and pcie host bridge,
can reuse existing ArmVirtPkg code that way.  Needs patched QEMU.

features
--------
 [working] serial console
 [working] direct kernel boot
 [working] virtio-mmio support
 [working] pcie support

known limitations
-----------------
 * rtc=on is required for now.
 * can't use separate code/vars (actually an microvm limitation,
   there is no pflash support).
 * transitional virtio-pci devices do not work.  microvm doesn't
   support ioports on pcie, and ovmf doesn't initialize pcie devices
   with ioports if there is no address space for them (even though
   pcie devices are required to be functional without ioports).

usage
-----
qemu-system-x86_64 \
    -nographic \
    -machine microvm,acpi=on,pit=off,pic=off,rtc=on \
    -bios /path/to/MICROVM.fd \
    [ ... more args here ... ]