[Buildroot] [PATCH 7/8] package/edk2-images: new package

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Fri Sep 17 19:24:17 UTC 2021


Thomas, Dick, All,

On 2021-09-17 16:14 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 13:43:38 +0000
> "D. Olsson" <hi at senzilla.io> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 11:34, Kory Maincent
> > <kory.maincent at bootlin.com> wrote:
> > > In order to add support for EFI boot from the emulator, this patch
> > > add a package to download the EFI BIOS prebuilt binary from:
> > > https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/edk2/  
> > Since a few months[1] it's been possible to build EDK2 from source in
> > Buildroot. Would it be possible to extend the existing package
> > instead of duplicating the effort by maintaining two packages?
> > 
> > [1]:
> > https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/log/boot/edk2/edk2.hash?showmsg=1
> 
> When Köry packaged edk2-images, I indeed thought of the fact that we
> can now build EDK2 from source. That being said, to quickly get an EFI
> BIOS image to do tests under Qemu, a pre-built EDK2 image is quite nice.
> 
> I'll let others comment on this.

I see no reason to have a pre-built version of edk2.

So I agree with Dick: we should be using the edk2 boot package we
already have in-tree.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

-- 
.-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------.
|  Yann E. MORIN  | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: |
| +33 662 376 056 | Software  Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN     |  ___               |
| +33 561 099 427 `------------.-------:  X  AGAINST      |  \e/  There is no  |
| http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL    |   v   conspiracy.  |
'------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'


More information about the buildroot mailing list