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From: ng0 <ng0@n0.is>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: omvf firmware
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:29:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180315202937.dtnuqfkh6h34nzcy@abyayala> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180315194815.GA1080@macbook41>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-15 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-15 19:48 omvf firmware Efraim Flashner
2018-03-15 20:29 ` ng0 [this message]
2018-03-15 20:47   ` Efraim Flashner

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