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authorRaito Bezarius <masterancpp@gmail.com>2023-11-25 12:49:21 +0100
committerRaito Bezarius <masterancpp@gmail.com>2023-11-25 12:49:21 +0100
commit770194fac17ea9bb018e612f426239f4f13c1785 (patch)
tree02b9ec838b25eba0c67378d410e2dad0a4a88bb8 /pkgs/applications/virtualization
parent6a2ed3adf2d4e503676ca6dc16467ec88608eb7d (diff)
OVMF: disable `sourceDebug` by default
`sourceDebug` enables a source-level debugger agent inside the UEFI code
that can be leveraged via a certain bus (USB or serial for example) to debug the platform.

See: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/SourceLevelDebugPkg for more information.
`sourceDebug` is almost something you never want when you debug UEFI in a virtual machine.

Debugging with GDB can be achieved via: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/How-to-debug-OVMF-with-QEMU-using-GDB.
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/applications/virtualization')
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/virtualization/OVMF/default.nix4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/OVMF/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/OVMF/default.nix
index eada778e1c69c..20353696d161f 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/OVMF/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/OVMF/default.nix
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
 , tpmSupport ? false
 , tlsSupport ? false
 , debug ? false
-, sourceDebug ? debug
+# Usually, this option is broken, do not use it except if you know what you are
+# doing.
+, sourceDebug ? false
 }:
 
 assert csmSupport -> seabios != null;