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

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

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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

Thanks,
Attilio

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