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On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 06:47:55PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> 
> Interesting. I am going to rip most of the EFI handover protocol stuff
> out of OVMF, since it is mostly unnecessary, and having the PE/COFF
> loader put the image in the correct place right away is a nice
> complimentary improvement to that. (Note that the OVMF implementation
> of the EFI handover protocol does not currently honor the preferred
> address from the setup header anyway)

Yeah, for my testing I'm running the image from the EFI shell, which
enters via PE entry point and honors the pref address.