[yocto] qemu EFI build failure

[Kamble, Nitin A]

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Nitin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Kamble, Nitin A
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:32 PM
> To: Hart, Darren; Bodke, Kishore K
> Cc: Ahmad, Josef; yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [yocto] qemu EFI build failure
> 
> 
> I just sent a patch to oecore mailing list to fix the grub issue with
> automake 1.11.2.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nitin
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hart, Darren
> > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:39 PM
> > To: Bodke, Kishore K
> > Cc: Ahmad, Josef; yocto at yoctoproject.org; Kamble, Nitin A
> > Subject: Re: [yocto] qemu EFI build failure
> >
> > On 01/12/2012 01:28 PM, Bodke, Kishore K wrote:
> > > I have only
> > > MACHINE_FEATURES += "efi"
> > > KERNEL_FEATURES_append_cedartrail += "cfg/efi-ext.scc".
> > >
> > > I am not having IMAGE_FSTYPES += "live".
> >
> > The "live" change is just to trigger the live image type which builds
> > grub-efi-native for efi systems. qemux86 needs this added explicitly.
> >
> > --
> > Darren
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Kishore.
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Hart, Darren
> > > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:20 PM
> > > To: Ahmad, Josef
> > > Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org; Bodke, Kishore K; Kamble, Nitin A
> > > Subject: Re: [yocto] qemu EFI build failure
> > >
> > > On 01/12/2012 10:27 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 01/12/2012 08:19 AM, Josef Ahmad wrote:
> > >>> I tried to build a qemux86 EFI image, by setting:
> > >>> - in my local.conf: IMAGE_FSTYPES += "live"
> > >>> - in poly/meta/conf/machine/qemux86.conf: MACHINE_FEATURES +=
> "efi"
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> I haven't tried live images with QEMU. For one thing, they aren't
> > really
> > >> necessary as you can specify all the boot parameters on the qemu
> > command
> > >> line. Is there are reason you want to use the live image
> > specifically?
> > >>
> > >> Also, in order to properly test EFI in QEMU, you will need to use
> an
> > EFI
> > >> BIOS - I believe you're aware of this already - but this isn't
> > currently
> > >> supported by the runqemu scripts that ship with yocto.
> > >>
> > >>> The build gave me the following error:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I'll do some test builds - it isn't clear to me what is going on
> > here.
> > >>
> > >> <snip>
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Has anyone encountered the same error?  I'm not sure I set up the
> > >>> correct configuration. Also, is there another way to append "efi"
> > to
> > >>> MACHINE_FEATURES rather than by modifying qemux86.conf?
> > >>
> > >> You should be able to do something like:
> > >> MACHINE_FEATURES_append_qemux86 = "efi"
> > >>
> > >> Note that you will also need to enable the efi support in the
> > kernel,
> > >> which is done with the KERNEL_FEATURES variable, something like:
> > >> KERNEL_FEATURES_append_qemux86 = "conf/efi-ext.scc"
> > >>
> > >> Either of these can be set in your local.conf.
> > >>
> > >
> > > More accurately:
> > >
> > > MACHINE_FEATURES_append_qemux86=" efi pcbios"
> > > KERNEL_FEATURES_append_qemux86=" cfg/efi-ext.scc"
> > > IMAGE_FSTYPES += "live"
> > >
> > > With these added to local.conf and building for qemux86 I see the
> > same
> > > configure failures reported by Kishore and Josef:
> > >
> > > | ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded
> > from...
> > > | acinclude.m4:363: grub_CHECK_STACK_ARG_PROBE is expanded from...
> > >
> > > I've discussed in IRC with Nitin and he thinks this may be related
> to
> > > the automake update and is looking into it.
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Darren Hart
> > Intel Open Source Technology Center
> > Yocto Project - Linux Kernel
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