tianocore
Provide Arm-based OS container
In future, more and more people may use Arm-based system to develope UEFI system firmware. According to the issue in edk2 here.
We should provide Arm-based container for edk2 CI pipepline. May I know if the Tianocore members is happy with these ?
If it`s feasible, I will develop the Arm-based container for it.
Please start with the Fedora 41 image, since this will be used in the x64 CI.
It seems that git-credential-manager don`t have linux Arm-64 version, @osteffenrh from your point of view, how to handle that ?
That is only used for developer convenience. CI does not use it. I think we can do without for now.
It can build
build_step "ArmVirtPkg/PlatformCI/QemuBuild.py" "AARCH64"
build_step "ArmVirtPkg/PlatformCI/QemuBuild.py" "ARM"
Bud always fail on
build_step "OvmfPkg/PlatformCI/PlatformBuild.py" "X64"
To build X64 on Arm-64 OS, we need to install gcc-x86_64-linux-gnu cross compiler.
But I try export GCC, or anything other method.
It still fail to build OvmfX64.dsc
https://github.com/Damien-Chen/containers/actions/runs/16625140524/job/47039392313
Hm yeah, it is calling "gcc" which is probably the aarch64 one and not the x86_64 cross. Not sure why that is the case though.
I found someone faced similar error as mine https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/question-about-edk2-uefi-build/236888
In installation, the followin error happen in Check(Linux) stage: Note: It`s part of error log.
ERROR - mu_nasm is host specific, but does not appear to have support for Host(os='Linux', arch='ARM', bit='64'). ERROR - Verify support for detected host: Host(os='Linux', arch='ARM', bit='64') and contact dependency provider to add support. ERROR - Otherwise, delete the external dependency directory to reset. ERROR - edk2-acpica-iasl is host specific, but does not appear to have support for Host(os='Linux', arch='ARM', bit='64').
I think some packages are still not available on Arm-64 platform.
Hm.
The Check(Linux) stage is only there as a simple smoke-test to see if the image can build something at all. This can be modified or skipped if we feel that it helps us.
Are you able to cross-build OvmfPkg for x64 at all, locally (without using the CI)?
Yes, I think I can modify the script so that it will not build OvmfPkg on AArch-64 OS temporarily.