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From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>,
	Buildroot List <buildroot@buildroot.org>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/gnu-efi: disable on mips64el
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2023 19:20:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230930172014.GG2579@scaer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230930102328.537070-1-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>

Thomas, All,

On 2023-09-30 12:23 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot spake thusly:
> The gnu-efi package was enabled on mips64el by commit
> 11b347c03ab0b38389ec11b48f63236a3b4d6547 ("package/gnu-efi: add
> mips64el support"). However, it has been failing to build for a long
> time, and nobody bothered fixing it:
> 
> gnu-efi-3.0.15//gnuefi/crt0-efi-mips64el.S:71: Error: cannot represent BFD_RELOC_16 relocation in this object file format
> 
> Even reverting back to gnu-efi 3.0.10, which was the version used at
> the time of 11b347c03ab0b38389ec11b48f63236a3b4d6547, does not fix the
> issue. We tested updating to the latest gnu-efi version, 3.0.17, and
> the problem still exists.
> 
> Since EFI on MIPS is extremely niche, we don't really want to invest
> the time to fix this issue, so let's disable it again. If someone
> cares enough, it can be fixed and re-enabled.
> 
> Fixes:
> 
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/d5938edcf50ebb7fdcec148d73f402845079779d/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>

Applied to master, thanks.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> ---
>  package/gnu-efi/Config.in  | 1 -
>  package/gnu-efi/gnu-efi.mk | 2 --
>  2 files changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/package/gnu-efi/Config.in b/package/gnu-efi/Config.in
> index 8e35fddbcb..d456a23837 100644
> --- a/package/gnu-efi/Config.in
> +++ b/package/gnu-efi/Config.in
> @@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_GNU_EFI_ARCH_SUPPORTS
>  	default y if BR2_aarch64
>  	default y if BR2_aarch64_be
>  	default y if BR2_i386
> -	default y if BR2_mips64el
>  	default y if BR2_x86_64
>  
>  config BR2_PACKAGE_GNU_EFI
> diff --git a/package/gnu-efi/gnu-efi.mk b/package/gnu-efi/gnu-efi.mk
> index 93b5888370..686a14be01 100644
> --- a/package/gnu-efi/gnu-efi.mk
> +++ b/package/gnu-efi/gnu-efi.mk
> @@ -24,8 +24,6 @@ else ifeq ($(BR2_arm)$(BR2_armeb),y)
>  GNU_EFI_PLATFORM = arm
>  else ifeq ($(BR2_aarch64)$(BR2_aarch64_be),y)
>  GNU_EFI_PLATFORM = aarch64
> -else ifeq ($(BR2_mips64el),y)
> -GNU_EFI_PLATFORM = mips64el
>  endif
>  
>  GNU_EFI_MAKE_OPTS = \
> -- 
> 2.41.0
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-30 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-30 10:23 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/gnu-efi: disable on mips64el Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2023-09-30 17:20 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2023-10-13  6:21 ` Peter Korsgaard

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