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OneAndOnlyRoot

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Registered: 2025-01-01

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edk2 packages are very out of date

I was planning on making a windows vm but nocticed that the following packages are quite heavily out of date:

edk2-aarch64
edk2-arm
edk2-ovmf
edk2-shell

Does anyone know of a valid reason they have not been updated, any breakage and such?
The newer versions do appear to have security fixes is all so seems like the new updates are important.

Debating if it is worth building from source.

Thanks!

Lone_Wolf

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Re: edk2 packages are very out of date

Looking at https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases it seems there have been 2 updates , I wouldn't call that horribly behind .

Subscribe to / keep an eye on https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/7

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OneAndOnlyRoot

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Re: edk2 packages are very out of date

Looking at https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases it seems there have been 2 updates , I wouldn't call that horribly behind .

Subscribe to / keep an eye on https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/7

Yeah maybe 2 updates isn't really that bad but I was more going off it being almost a yr since it matched upstream.
I will keep an eye on the gitlab issue, thanks.

UweSauter

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Registered: 2021-02-10

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Re: edk2 packages are very out of date

Hi,

edk2-ovmf 202505-1 breaks existing VMs based on Rocky Linux 10. Neither the installation medium (Rocky-10.0-x86_64-minimal.iso) nor my VM boot up. Both get stuck after the Grub selection screen. Downgrading to edk2-ovmf 202411-1 makes the VM boot again.

Any thoughts?

gromit

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Re: edk2 packages are very out of date

@UweSauter could you try the version 202508 from testing?

karlheinz

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Re: edk2 packages are very out of date

Hi,

I also noticed today that Alma Linux and Fedora guests no longer start after the GRUB screen. A guest with arch linux boots normally

@gromit i have installed 202508 from testing but it stays the same. with edk2-ovmf 202411-1 the vm boot fine.

Grüsse

AurGlass

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Registered: 2023-06-06

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Re: edk2 packages are very out of date

Similar to the other posters, after the 202505 update, my VMs also hang during boot after leaving the grub screen.  My particular flavors are Fedora Workstation 42 and NixOS. Both (previously working) VMs and the live ISOs fail to complete boot.  The virt-manager CPU usage graph goes up to around 60% and just sits there. The VMs are unresponsive to any commands such as shutdown, reboot, CTRL-ALT-DEL. Only forced shutdown or reset works.

Creating a new VM using the libvirt defaults shows the same error.

Downgrading to edk2-ovmf 202411 restores full function to everything.

An internet search indicates this is a known incompatibility between edk2-ovmf 202505 (and later) and GRUB, with fingerpointing to an issue with GRUB's implementation. There are some suggestions of workarounds involving changes to the VM configuration, but I needed to get work done so haven't had time to explore them yet.

edk2-ovmf should probably have been tested a bit more before updating, and a post to Arch News alerting users to potential breakage and workarounds would be helpful.

gromit

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Re: edk2 packages are very out of date

Please open an issue on our bugtracker: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … issues/new

AurGlass

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Registered: 2023-06-06

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Re: edk2 packages are very out of date

Please open an issue on our bugtracker: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … issues/new

Waiting on new account since my Arch experience has been so bug-free that all I have is my old Flyspray login, which doesn't work at the new place. :-)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: edk2 packages are very out of date

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/issues/10883 / https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/10667 (which was not merged)? Any bug report with grub?

AurGlass

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Registered: 2023-06-06

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Re: edk2 packages are very out of date

Aight, after jumping through the hoops necessary to gain access to the latest incarnation of the Arch bug tracking system (because I'm apparently a masochist who enjoys pain, or just a stubborn S.O.B.), issue created: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/9

xerxes_

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Re: edk2 packages are very out of date

EDK2 is very old game from previous century; it's hard to believe that you still want to play it

Lone_Wolf

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Re: edk2 packages are very out of date

The edk2 this thread is about is not a game, but the official development kit for uefi applications.

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