Re: [PATCH-for-10.2] roms: Do not try to build EDK2 for 32-bit ARM on Fedora

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 18/11/25 08:09, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 03:04:20PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> With Fedora 27, support for 32-bit ARM hosts was dropped.
>> QEMU also stopped building the docker images in commit
>> 0054dc8bde4 ("Update lcitool and fedora to 37").
> 
> /me fails to see the link to the patch ...
> 
> This is about the /guest/ firmware images, and they are
> cross-compiled.  And note that you can run 32-bit guests
> on 64-bit hosts (if supported by the cpu).
> 
> Note that I have no objections to removing the 32-bit edk2
> firmware images.  Upstream edk2 is in the process of removing
> 32-bit support, so that is going to happen sooner or later
> anyway (for both arm and ia32).  Also UEFI on 32-bit never
> really took off in the first place.
> 
> But when doing so do it properly please.  Remove build config
> (in edk2-build.config), pre-built binaries, maybe also test
> cases, ...

I only have handy Fedora 42 and 43 VMs where this script doesn't
work anymore. I'm not really interested in installing a pre-37
Fedora to build EDK2 ARM, nor motivated right now to clean this
"properly". Better we wait EDK2 32-bit removal upstream and then
clean these QEMU scripts.

Regards,

Phil.