Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 18:22:19 +0000 (UTC) From: Rebecca Cran <bcran@FreeBSD.org> To: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r500603 - head/sysutils/uefi-edk2-qemu Message-ID: <201905011822.x41IMJk0065884@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bcran (src committer) Date: Wed May 1 18:22:19 2019 New Revision: 500603 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/500603 Log: Improve the comment and description for sysutils/uefi-edk2-qemu Modified: head/sysutils/uefi-edk2-qemu/Makefile head/sysutils/uefi-edk2-qemu/pkg-descr Modified: head/sysutils/uefi-edk2-qemu/Makefile ============================================================================== --- head/sysutils/uefi-edk2-qemu/Makefile Wed May 1 18:00:46 2019 (r500602) +++ head/sysutils/uefi-edk2-qemu/Makefile Wed May 1 18:22:19 2019 (r500603) @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ DISTVERSION= g20190307 CATEGORIES= sysutils MAINTAINER= bcran@FreeBSD.org -COMMENT= UEFI-EDK2 firmware for QEMU +COMMENT= OVMF package providing UEFI system firmware for QEMU LICENSE= BSD2CLAUSE Modified: head/sysutils/uefi-edk2-qemu/pkg-descr ============================================================================== --- head/sysutils/uefi-edk2-qemu/pkg-descr Wed May 1 18:00:46 2019 (r500602) +++ head/sysutils/uefi-edk2-qemu/pkg-descr Wed May 1 18:22:19 2019 (r500603) @@ -1,6 +1,14 @@ -UEFI-EDK2 firmware for QEMU. -This package contains the TianoCore EDK2 OVMF (Open Virtual Machine Firmware) -configured to run under QEMU. -OVMF provides UEFI firmware for virtual machines. +Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) compliant firmware can be +developed using the EFI Development Kit II (EDK2). + +UEFI provides a specification for modern system (boot) firmware for x86, +x86_64, arm and arm64 machines. This system firmware was previously +called a 'BIOS'. + +This package contains the Open Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF) package +from the TianoCore EDK II project configured to run under QEMU. + +More information about OVMF can be found at +https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/OVMF . WWW: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2
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