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Bug#1055987: ITP: virt-firmware -- Tools for manipulating edk2 (ovmf/qemu-efi) firmware images

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On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 05:54:23 -0700 dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>
wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> 
> * Package name    : virt-firmware
>   Version         : 23.10
>   Upstream Contact: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> * URL             : https://gitlab.com/kraxel/virt-firmware
> * License         : GPL-2+
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : Tools for manipulating edk2 (ovmf/qemu-efi)
firmware images
> 
> This is a collection of tools for edk2 firmware images. They support
> decoding and printing the content of firmware volumes. Variable
stores
> (e.g. OVMF_VARS.fd) can be modified, for example to enroll secure
boot
> certificates. Tools included:
> 
>  virt-fw-dump - Decodes and prints the content of firmware volumes.
> 
>  virt-fw-vars - Print and edit variable store volumes. Currently
focused on
>                 enrolling certificates and enabling secure boot.
> 
>  virt-fw-sigdb - Print and edit EFI signature database files.
> 
>  host-efi-vars - Read efi variables from linux efivarfs and
decode/print them.
> 
>  kernel-bootcfg - Manage efi boot configuration for UKIs (unified
kernel
>                   images) when using direct boot (without boot loader
like
>                 grub or systemd-boot).
> 
>  pe-dumpinfo - Information dump for pe (the format used by EFI)
binaries.
> 
>  pe-listsigs - List signatures and certificate chain for pe binaries.
Can also
>                extract certificates & signatures.
> 
> 
> My immediate motivation for packaging this is that, as the maintainer
of
> the edk2 package, I need to remove some deprecated image types -
specifically
> the OVMF 2M images. These utilities can help users migrate their VMs
to
> supported types by dumping/loading the variable stores.
> 
> In the future, I expect edk2 packaging to evolve into using these
tools
> to modify images out-of-band, instead of launching QEMU instances to
> modify them in-band as part of the build.
> 

Hello Dann,

I find myself in need of this package for some CI usage as well, are
you planning to work on this soon? Do you need any help?

Thanks!

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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Bug#1055987: ITP: virt-firmware -- Tools for manipulating edk2 (ovmf/qemu-efi) firmware images dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org> - 2023-11-15 14:00 +0100
  Bug#1055987: ITP: virt-firmware -- Tools for manipulating edk2 (ovmf/qemu-efi) firmware images Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2023-12-07 22:10 +0100
    Bug#1055987: ITP: virt-firmware -- Tools for manipulating edk2 (ovmf/qemu-efi) firmware images dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org> - 2023-12-17 17:50 +0100
      Bug#1055987: ITP: virt-firmware -- Tools for manipulating edk2 (ovmf/qemu-efi) firmware images Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2023-12-17 20:00 +0100
        Bug#1055987: ITP: virt-firmware -- Tools for manipulating edk2 (ovmf/qemu-efi) firmware images dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org> - 2023-12-17 21:00 +0100

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