From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:08:17 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 3/5] gummiboot: new package In-Reply-To: <20140219195906.77cc84a7@skate> References: <1392766441-2160-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1392766441-2160-4-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <20140219175929.GB3400@free.fr> <20140219195906.77cc84a7@skate> Message-ID: <20140219190817.GD3400@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas, All, On 2014-02-19 19:59 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly: > Dear Yann E. MORIN, > > On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:59:29 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > > > +# The git archive does not have the autoconf/automake stuff generated. > > > +GUMMIBOOT_AUTORECONF = YES > > > +GUMMIBOOT_DEPENDENCIES = gnu-efi host-pkgconf util-linux > > > > Ah, gnu-efi is used here. That's why we need to install it in staging/ > > and target/, right? > > To staging: no. > > > Still, since this is a boot-related stuff, do we really need to have > > gnu-efi installed in target/ ? > > Correct, I believe installation to target is useless, as I've > mentioned in my reply to your comments on the gnu-efi package. OK, it now makes sense. :-) > > > +GUMMIBOOT_INSTALL_TARGET = NO > > > +GUMMIBOOT_INSTALL_IMAGES = YES > > > + > > > +ifeq ($(BR2_i386),y) > > > +GUMMIBOOT_IMGARCH = ia32 > > > +else ifeq ($(BR2_x86_64),y) > > > +GUMMIBOOT_IMGARCH = x64 > > > +endif > > > > Ditto: what about 32-bit EFI-BIOS on a 64-bit machine? > > From my testing, it doesn't work. And I'd say that if someone wants to > work on this, it could be seen as a possible extension of the proposed > patches, to be implemented and submitted later. Maybe add a little note in the help text stating this is not suported, then? Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'