From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
To: Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>
Cc: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 04/08: gnu: QEMU: Unbundle iPXE.
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 21:40:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEwRq=qNuKyNJnZjRfqZLcpE=WBVRs4OpGHkjrkFeaabOEosVQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eds6m6tf.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 9:24 PM Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> wrote:
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > grub <- qemu-minimal <- ipxe-qemu <- ipxe <- syslinux
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> >
> > with syslinux that only supports x86_64-linux and i686-linux.
> >
> > I'm not sure how to break that path. It looks like qemu-minimal is
> > required by grub for test purposes. Maybe we could restrict that
> > dependency and the tests to x86_64-linux and i686-linux?
>
> I don't know what iPXE uses syslinux for (CC Vincent); it appears to
> build fine without it. I made the dependency conditional on
> architecture in d15972194aaef17fd1f7fd713d235c70794c9d4f, that way QEMU
> should still work on aarch64.
I don't know for sure, but searching a bit, I've found 2 references to
syslinux :
You will need to have at least the following packages installed in
order to build iPXE:
[...]
- syslinux (for isolinux, needed only for building .iso images)
[...]
See page : https://ipxe.org/download?s[]=syslinux
And :
To be able to boot memtest, there are a couple requirements:
[...]
The memdisk kernel from the syslinux library
[...]
See page : https://ipxe.org/appnote/memtest?s[]=syslinux
So maybe add a comment somewhere explaining that those 2 things
won't work on any arch != x86_*
Maybe just add that to the commitmsg...
Regards
--
Vincent Legoll
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2023-01-07 15:43 ` 04/08: gnu: QEMU: Unbundle iPXE Mathieu Othacehe
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