Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: ipxe: update for fixing build with GCC9

[Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 12:13:49AM +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> Building with GCC9 (on openSUSE Tubmleweed) generates a lot of errors of
> the "taking address of packed member of ... may result in an unaligned
> pointer value" kind.
> 
> Updating to upstream commit 1dd56dbd11082 ("[build] Workaround compilation
> error with gcc 9.1") seems to fix the problem.
> 
> For more info, see:
> 
> https://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commit/1dd56dbd11082fb622c2ed21cfaced4f47d798a6
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Cc: Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Hey, Wei,
> 
> I have never played much with ipxe, so I can't be 100% sure that this is
> the best idea, and what could be the problems.
> 

Yes this is what we normally do.

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>

Further improvement would be to separate ipxe from the build and track
upstream in osstest since tools is now able to load an IPXE binary, but
this will do.

Wei.

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