[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 1/5] grub-efi-native: New recipe to build GRUB EFI images

[Darren Hart]

On 11/29/2011 12:22 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> 
> Op 29 nov. 2011, om 09:03 heeft Darren Hart het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> On 11/25/2011 02:57 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/24/2011 12:05 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
>>>> Add a recipe to build the GRUB efi images. This recipe is written as
>>>> a native recipe as the resulting GRUB utils are required to assemble
>>>> the final image. Rather than build a native and a target recipe (and
>>>> increase build times), this recipe builds the utils for the host and
>>>> passes an appropriate --target argument to the GRUB configure script
>>>> to build the modules for the target arch. The only output of this
>>>> recipe is an EFI image in the deploy directory.
>>>
>>> The grub-help list came through with an alternative approach:
>>>
>>> "./configure CC=powerpc-linux-gcc  --host=ppc-linux-gnu --target=i386
>>> --with-platform=pc TARGET_CC=i386-linux-gcc"
>>>
>>> This would allow for building on a host of arch ppc for a target of arch
>>> i386.
>>>
>>> Would it be preferable then to build this as a target package and
>>> manipuate the configure flags to use the BUILD_CC ? I presume a similar
>>> PN rename would be desirable to account for the HOST component of the
>>> build as I used here for the TARGET on the -native version?
>>
>> I have been working on trying to get this working as a target recipe. I've
>> resolved a number of issues, but something is still biting me and I haven't been
>> able to sort out what. I would really appreciate a few more sets of eyes on
>> this.
>>
>> I have pushed my dvhart/efi/dev branch to poky-contrib for reference:
>>
>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/?h=dvhart/efi/dev
>>
>> When building this recipe
> 
> This is against poky, so I can't build it. If it was against
> OE-core, like one would expect on the OE-core mailing list,
> I could build it.

OK, fair enough.

git://git.infradead.org/srv/git/users/dvhart/oe-core.git dvhart/efi/dev

I just fixed up the patch series - untested.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel