From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Egger Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PATCH v3] Fetch the OVMF repository from specific git mirror and enable it Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:06:48 +0100 Message-ID: <4F6856B8.7080300@amd.com> References: <402a1e16b2d8f24725cc.1330630107@dhcp-3-145.uk.xensource.com> <20320.35396.254724.585442@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <4F65111E.8030507@citrix.com> <20327.24718.845063.909876@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <4F676FA9.3090401@citrix.com> <4F6771F4.1060607@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4F6771F4.1060607@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Attilio Rao Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=E9?= , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Ian Jackson , Ian Campbell List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 03/19/12 18:50, Attilio Rao wrote: > On 19/03/12 17:40, Attilio Rao wrote: >> On 19/03/12 16:36, Ian Jackson wrote: >>> Attilio Rao writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [PATCH v3] Fetch the >>> OVMF repository from specific git mirror and enable it"): >>>> I think I see the issue here. Are you running with i486 as an arch? >>>> This is a deficiency of the OVMF support, because it has some wrappers >>>> to build appropriately the firmware which are OS and architectures >>>> specific and it does support Linux-i686 and Linux-x86_64 but not >>>> Linux-i486. >>>> I'm not sure about what we should do here, possible options include: >>>> - Verify that, on all i486,i586,etc. we can eventually use i686 and >>>> unify the script to do that >>> Surely it's just wanting to know roughly what architecture to build >>> for. The difference between i686 and i486 isn't relevant here. >>> (I hope. If it is then we have other problems because this is tested >>> at build-time and might be run on a different kernel to the one it's >>> built on.) >>> >>> So I think this is the right thing to do. >>> >> >> Here is my take on OVMF for what is needed: >> http://xenbits.xen.org/people/attilio/ovmf-xen-arches.patch >> >> >> This should at least fix tianocore to build on all i*86 Linux flavours. >> Unfortunately I don't have a NetBSD machine to test it out, so if >> Christoph and/or Roger can apply this patch to ovmf and try the >> original patch on this thread (and verify NetBSD can build ok) I'll >> propose this patch upstream for TIANOCORE, otherwise I will just send >> out a patch with OVMF disabled until NetBSD is not tested. >> > > To be more precise, you don't even need the patch at the beginning of > the thread, all you need to do to test you can build OVMF on NetBSD is: > - git clone git://xenbits.xen.org/ovmf.git > - apply the patch above > - cd ovmf/OvmfPkg/ > - $ ./build.sh > - $ ./build.sh -a X64 The build fails that build.sh is a bash-script and not a /bin/sh script. Christoph -- ---to satisfy European Law for business letters: Advanced Micro Devices GmbH Einsteinring 24, 85689 Dornach b. Muenchen Geschaeftsfuehrer: Alberto Bozzo, Andrew Bowd Sitz: Dornach, Gemeinde Aschheim, Landkreis Muenchen Registergericht Muenchen, HRB Nr. 43632