Re: ARM virtual machines and UEFI's current non-Free status

On 12/12/2014 03:16 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:

The question then is: is this outcome unacceptable or undesirable to anybody? Is anybody planning some other approach?

Highly undesirable.

One of our engineers is evaluating splicing in the FreeBSD VFAT driver which is BSD licensed without the plus. Whether this will be successful or address all possible concerns is an open question, but it is a potential avenue to resolution.