Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [PATCH v3] Fetch the OVMF repository from specific git mirror and enable it

[Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>]

On 03/19/12 18:50, Attilio Rao wrote:
> On 19/03/12 17:40, Attilio Rao wrote:
> > On 19/03/12 16:36, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Attilio Rao writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [PATCH v3] Fetch the
> > > OVMF repository from specific git mirror and enable it"):
> > > > I think I see the issue here. Are you running with i486 as an arch?
> > > > This is a deficiency of the OVMF support, because it has some wrappers
> > > > to build appropriately the firmware which are OS and architectures
> > > > specific and it does support Linux-i686 and Linux-x86_64 but not
> > > > Linux-i486.
> > > > I'm not sure about what we should do here, possible options include:
> > > > - Verify that, on all i486,i586,etc. we can eventually use i686 and
> > > > unify the script to do that
> > > Surely it's just wanting to know roughly what architecture to build
> > > for. The difference between i686 and i486 isn't relevant here.
> > > (I hope. If it is then we have other problems because this is tested
> > > at build-time and might be run on a different kernel to the one it's
> > > built on.)
> > >
> > > So I think this is the right thing to do.
> > Here is my take on OVMF for what is needed:
> > http://xenbits.xen.org/people/attilio/ovmf-xen-arches.patch
> > <http://xenbits.xen.org/people/attilio/ovmf-xen-arches.patch>
> >
> > This should at least fix tianocore to build on all i*86 Linux flavours.
> > Unfortunately I don't have a NetBSD machine to test it out, so if
> > Christoph and/or Roger can apply this patch to ovmf and try the
> > original patch on this thread (and verify NetBSD can build ok) I'll
> > propose this patch upstream for TIANOCORE, otherwise I will just send
> > out a patch with OVMF disabled until NetBSD is not tested.
> To be more precise, you don't even need the patch at the beginning of
> the thread, all you need to do to test you can build OVMF on NetBSD is:
> - git clone git://xenbits.xen.org/ovmf.git
> - apply the patch above
> - cd ovmf/OvmfPkg/
> - $ ./build.sh
> - $ ./build.sh -a X64
The build fails that build.sh is a bash-script and not a /bin/sh script.

Christoph


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