it updates the arm64 UEFI firmware to a version newer than 2023.11,
as running on qemu >= 9.0 can trigger a bug in the older versions of the EDK2 guest firmware,
causing Synchronous Exception and potential bootloops.
While doing so it updates the amd64 OVMF firmware, which now has removed
support for the 2M firmware and only supports the 4M one.
The 4M OVMF firmware comes with split CODE and VARS images, which need
to be loaded as pflash drives in the qemu vm, rather than via the -bios
flag.
For more details on the migration see: https://salsa.debian.org/qemu-team/edk2/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/howto-2M-to-4M-migration.md
Fixes https://github.com/gokrazy/tools/issues/80
Whether edk2 is available on operating systems varies,
so the best choice is to embed the amd64/arm64 EFI files.
We need these files to boot amd64 images in EFI mode,
and also for arm64 images to boot at all.
This is useful for running gokrazy on PC platforms (e.g. for
https://router7.org/), where the first systems without legacy BIOS support are
starting to ship.
The existing boot methods (Legacy BIOS MBR boot, Raspberry Pi) are unaffected by
this change and keep working.
Regardless of the bootloader (BIOS, UEFI, Raspberry Pi), we now use a GPT
partition table with hybrid MBR (= protective MBR + FAT32 /boot partition
which the Raspberry Pi bootloader requires).
This change should have no effect on existing installations.
To switch to GPT, you’ll need to use the -overwrite= flag to partition the
device (e.g. SD card). If you want to keep your /perm partition, you’ll need to
shrink the file system (using resize2fs) by 1 MB to make space for the secondary
GPT partition table copy at the end of the device.
Previously, the partition *table* contained a UUID that we used as root=
parameter for the Linux kernel, e.g. root=PARTUUID=471cad93-03
Now, individual partitions (not the partition *table*) have a UUID that begins
with 60c24cc1-f3f9-427a-8199,
e.g. root=PARTUUID=60c24cc1-f3f9-427a-8199-2e18c40c0004
fixes https://github.com/gokrazy/gokrazy/issues/87
