From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
Cc: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/gnu-efi: disable on mips64el
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 08:21:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fs2f6o19.fsf@48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230930102328.537070-1-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> (Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot's message of "Sat, 30 Sep 2023 12:23:28 +0200")
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org> writes:
> The gnu-efi package was enabled on mips64el by commit
> 11b347c03ab0b38389ec11b48f63236a3b4d6547 ("package/gnu-efi: add
> mips64el support"). However, it has been failing to build for a long
> time, and nobody bothered fixing it:
> gnu-efi-3.0.15//gnuefi/crt0-efi-mips64el.S:71: Error: cannot represent BFD_RELOC_16 relocation in this object file format
> Even reverting back to gnu-efi 3.0.10, which was the version used at
> the time of 11b347c03ab0b38389ec11b48f63236a3b4d6547, does not fix the
> issue. We tested updating to the latest gnu-efi version, 3.0.17, and
> the problem still exists.
> Since EFI on MIPS is extremely niche, we don't really want to invest
> the time to fix this issue, so let's disable it again. If someone
> cares enough, it can be fixed and re-enabled.
> Fixes:
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/d5938edcf50ebb7fdcec148d73f402845079779d/
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Committed to 2023.02.x and 2023.08.x, thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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2023-09-30 10:23 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/gnu-efi: disable on mips64el Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2023-09-30 17:20 ` Yann E. MORIN
2023-10-13 6:21 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
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