Re: [PATCH] efi: Explain OVMF acronym in OVMF_DEBUG_LOG help text

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Fri Aug 29 2025 - 13:02:57 EST


On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 08:52, Richard Lyu <richard.lyu@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2025/08/13 10:03, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 03:54:29PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > People not very intimate with EFI may not know the meaning of the OVMF
> > > acronym. Write it in full, to help users with making good decisions
> > > when configuring their kernels.
> > >
> > > Fixes: f393a761763c5427 ("efi: add ovmf debug log driver")
> > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > > + Recent versions of the Open Virtual Machine Firmware
> > > + (edk2-stable202508 + newer) can write their debug log to a memory
> > > + buffer. This driver exposes the log content via sysfs
> > > + (/sys/firmware/efi/ovmf_debug_log).
> >
> > Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Richard Lyu <richard.lyu@xxxxxxxx>
>

Thanks, I've queued this up now.