Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v8] systemd: update to v254

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>]

On 07/08/2023 17:01:02-0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> Can you try this patch on top
> 
> https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib/commit/?h=yoe/mut&id=0defb14c600170434befe8c94dad4732041a3513
> 

I have those two patches on top of master:

systemd-boot: Ensure EFI_LD is also passed to compiler driver
systemd: fix efi dependency


> On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 3:48 PM Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 at 23:37, Alexandre Belloni
> > <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 07/08/2023 16:40:25+0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I've been looking a bit more at this. there is definitively another
> > > > issue here which is the first one I found:
> > > >
> > > > x86_64-poky-linux-objcopy: /home/alexandre/poky/build-st/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/linuxx64.efi.stub: file format not recognized
> > > >
> > > > This is the main issue here.
> > > >
> > > > $ file /home/alexandre/poky/build-st/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/linuxx64.efi.stub
> > > > /home/alexandre/poky/build-st/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/linuxx64.efi.stub: MS-DOS executable PE32+ executable (EFI application) x86-64 (stripped to external PDB), for MS Windows
> > > > $ objdump -p /home/alexandre/poky/build-st/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/linuxx64.efi.stub
> > > > objdump: /home/alexandre/poky/build-st/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/linuxx64.efi.stub (.reloc): section flag STYP_GROUP (0x4) ignored
> > > > objdump: /home/alexandre/poky/build-st/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/linuxx64.efi.stub (.reloc): section flag STYP_COPY (0x10) ignored
> > > > objdump: /home/alexandre/poky/build-st/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/linuxx64.efi.stub: warning: ignoring section flag IMAGE_SCN_MEM_NOT_PAGED in section .reloc
> > > > objdump: /home/alexandre/poky/build-st/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/linuxx64.efi.stub (.reloc): section flag STYP_GROUP (0x4) ignored
> > > > objdump: /home/alexandre/poky/build-st/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/linuxx64.efi.stub (.reloc): section flag STYP_COPY (0x10) ignored
> > > > objdump: /home/alexandre/poky/build-st/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/linuxx64.efi.stub: warning: ignoring section flag IMAGE_SCN_MEM_NOT_PAGED in section .reloc
> > > > objdump: /home/alexandre/poky/build-st/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/linuxx64.efi.stub: file format not recognized
> > > >
> > > > I tested with v253.7 and I properly get:
> > > >
> > > > $ file /home/alexandre/poky/build-st/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/linuxx64.efi.stub
> > > > /home/alexandre/poky/build-st/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/linuxx64.efi.stub: PE32+ executable (EFI application) x86-64 (stripped to external PDB), for MS Windows
> > > > $ ./build-st/tmp/sysroots-components/x86_64/binutils-cross-x86_64/usr/bin/x86_64-poky-linux/x86_64-poky-linux-objdump -h /home/alexandre/poky/build-st/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/linuxx64.efi.stub
> > > >
> > > > /home/alexandre/poky/build-st/tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/linuxx64.efi.stub:     file format pei-x86-64
> > > >
> > > > Sections:
> > > > Idx Name          Size      VMA               LMA               File off  Algn
> > > >   0 .text         0000d7f0  0000000000004000  0000000000004000  00000400  2**4
> > > >                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
> > > >   1 .reloc        0000000c  0000000000012000  0000000000012000  0000dc00  2**2
> > > >                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
> > > >   2 .data         00002ab0  0000000000013000  0000000000013000  0000de00  2**4
> > > >                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
> > > >   3 .dynamic      00000100  0000000000016000  0000000000016000  00010a00  2**2
> > > >                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
> > > >   4 .rela         00000630  0000000000017000  0000000000017000  00010c00  2**2
> > > >                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
> > > >   5 .dynsym       00000018  0000000000018000  0000000000018000  00011400  2**2
> > > >                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
> > > >   6 .sdmagic      0000002a  000000000001a460  000000000001a460  00011600  2**2
> > > >                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
> > > >
> > > > I really believe the recipe is not generating a working efi.stub. Can
> > > > you check?
> > > >
> > >
> > > I've built systemd-boot v254 outside of YP and it generated a proper
> > > linuxx64.efi.stub. I still don't get why the recipe doesn't generate a
> > > working binary.
> > >
> > > The issue seems to be at the linuxx64.elf.stub generation as I took the
> > > one from my YP build, ran it through elf2efi.py on my PC and this didn't
> > > generate a working linuxx64.efi.stub
> >
> > Strange - do you see a difference in compiler/linker flags? That would
> > be the only thing I can think of

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