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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:22:34 +0000
Subject: Re: EFI image - SAL_DESC_PLATFORM_FEATURE bits
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Tristan Gingold wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:50:41AM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> Hi Tristan,
>>
>> Thanks for the info - where do I find the firmware? Is it in the Xen
>> hg repositories?
> 
> Yes,
> xenbits.xensource.com/efi-vfirmware.hg

[jes@leavenworth lw]$ hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/efi-vfirmware.hg
requesting all changes
abort: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
[jes@leavenworth lw]$

Is this the correct address? It's been ages since I used mercurial, so
maybe I have gone a little rusty.

> 
>> 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?
> Worse: you need a java environment.
> Recent versions of TianoCore uses python (which must be much easier to build)
> but I haven't time to update.

Gosh, you really know how to make my day :-( I have a feeling I am going
to regret getting into this :-)

Thanks,
Jes