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Re: omvf firmware


From: ng0
Subject: Re: omvf firmware
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:29:37 +0000

Efraim Flashner transcribed 2.0K bytes:
> I succesfully built ovmf firmware for aarch64 on my aarch64 board.
> Currently it builds for x86_64 and i686 on %intel platforms only. I
> think it's best to create a make-ovmf-firmware procedure to build the
> firmware for x86_64/i686/aarch64/armhf, but there's not a clear
> cross-grade path from our current x86_64 & i686 package to x86_64 or
> i686.
> 
> The two other options I've thought of are adding aarch64 and armhf
> support to our current package, which would balloon the native-inputs
> with cross compilers, or leave the current package and add 1 or 2 new
> pacakges, but then I feel like that's almost back to my original intent
> of creating a procedure and 4 packages.
> 
> Suggestions? Comments?

I don't know omvf. Does it involve kernel space modules? I've started
experimenting with a path to a generalized kernel-module support (which
needs the "source" we currently throw away of the kernel, etc).

Or what this firmware like?

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