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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V3 01/15] move x86 EFI boot code to common/efi



On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 08.09.14 at 17:23, <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ink On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 20:53 -0700, Roy Franz wrote:
>>> --- a/xen/arch/x86/Makefile
>>> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/Makefile
>>> @@ -75,6 +75,13 @@ $(TARGET): $(TARGET)-syms $(efi-y) boot/mkelf32
>>>
>>>  ALL_OBJS := $(BASEDIR)/arch/x86/boot/built_in.o 
>>> $(BASEDIR)/arch/x86/efi/built_in.o $(ALL_OBJS)
>>>
>>> +
>>> +# This seems to be required to get parallel builds to work, otherwise 
>>> prelink-efi.o complains about
>>> +# no rule to make boot.init.o
>>
>> I suppose we must recurse into common and arch at the same time.
>>> +# Not sure what the right fix is
>>
>> Me neither. This doesn't look right to me though, given that
>> xen/common/efi is also entered via a subdir-y in xen/common/Makefile.
>>
>> Perhaps Jan has some ideas but I'm wondering if we ought not to recurse
>> into xen/common/efi from here and not from xen/common, or at least to
>> not include extra-$(efi) += boot.init.o in xen/common/efi/Makefile (that
>> would also let the x86 specific checkng code stay here, might it?)
>>
>> symbols-dummy.o has a similar hack, but notice that it is not build from
>> xen/common/Makefile.
>>
>> Anyway, I'm flailing, perhaps Jan can suggest the correct fix.
>
> So originally the idea was to sym-link the moved file into its current
> location, limiting the build recursion to what is being done today.

I think this will be the cleanest - that will allow ARM to use the standard
common build stuff, and x86 to do exactly what it did before.  I'll do this
in the next version.

>
> The only seamless alternative I can see would be to move the whole
> efi/ subtree to common/ (after all, runtime.c will need to be moved at
> some point too, and other files should then follow for consistency).
>
> Jan
>

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