Re: EFI image - SAL_DESC_PLATFORM_FEATURE bits

[Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>]

Tristan Gingold wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:44:29PM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> So my question is how your EFI image builds the sys_entry table? Is it
>> possible for KVM/Xen etc. to pass down information that the system clock
>> drifts or does it need to be hardcoded in the image? If the latter, do
>> you have any pointers to how one goes about rebuilding the image?
> 
> The SAL system table is built in edk2-sparse/EdkXenPkg/Dxe/XenSal/XenSal.c.
> There is currently no platform features entry but it is easy to add one.
> I suppose this entry can be populated by using an hypercall. 
> 
> There is a README that explains how to build the firmware - it's tedious.

Hi Tristan,

Thanks for the info - where do I find the firmware? Is it in the Xen
hg repositories?

I was hoping it would be a walk in the park to build, but I kinda feared
you would say that. Do I need a special environment to build it, like a
special pre-historic version of GCC running on RHEL 3 or something like
that?

Cheers,
Jes