Re: [PATCH] [PATCH v3] Fetch the OVMF repository from specific git mirror and enable it

[Attilio Rao <attilio.rao@citrix.com>]

On 20/03/12 10:06, Christoph Egger wrote:
> 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
>>> <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.
>
>    

Can you please post me the output please?

Attilio