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

[Darren Hart]

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On 11/29/2011 01:16 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> 
> Op 29 nov. 2011, om 09:58 heeft Darren Hart het volgende
> geschreven:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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 get:
> 
> $ git fetch
> git://git.infradead.org/srv/git/users/dvhart/oe-core.git fatal: The
> remote end hung up unexpectedly
> 

Grmble... too late... too rushed... too many copy buffers. Sorry about
that:

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

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