From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from a7-20.smtp-out.eu-west-1.amazonses.com (a7-20.smtp-out.eu-west-1.amazonses.com [54.240.7.20]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web11.52343.1674669158575196887 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:52:39 -0800 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@ipxe.org header.s=cphpx6z2rfcgehlykjjh3gknqe3hsoe2 header.b=b975hsq6; spf=pass (domain: eu-west-1.amazonses.com, ip: 54.240.7.20, mailfrom: 01020185ea0f6992-77d208ac-1924-41fd-9d53-e0274d16291a-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/simple; s=cphpx6z2rfcgehlykjjh3gknqe3hsoe2; d=ipxe.org; t=1674669156; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; bh=jq9r3aYZVLrXYZlFCOPGXsDZ0VlIyvEJIE5sY3K5ATQ=; b=b975hsq6w/m47WLtafu+BXMEgbhbrB8xTpOnky6hIkgdWHfeEb0Ek+Y6tMrXlfcq 3RLRekWNNucQrEQhQILBIYTEg4+gfV1IZrkmQMtmj3ZZlYzdJdSIHD9mGw10tPcnBgk /uvI58ipNFb8YGXPKarzGm/6hACwu2TMxr0/T273Xd9u5IbcPuEB9sVs5DyGQ1wi7D6 mlRiJ1bHQjc9zxQTQZ7hQkPlfX08JwtJxQ/j2lmZYl1IxcoFQNLzKcd+iag0jG5qOIk W9fRKvjprD8YCVsN0u1/Wu9chdw2iQsj6Zo7kKtg0TlDn+9Rf/qaMm1SerI37S1nCSG JEcH9ZLTBg== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/simple; s=ihchhvubuqgjsxyuhssfvqohv7z3u4hn; d=amazonses.com; t=1674669156; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Feedback-ID; bh=jq9r3aYZVLrXYZlFCOPGXsDZ0VlIyvEJIE5sY3K5ATQ=; b=nC05KjEWqJ12jvuprjyu4SWKT6VnvP1mjsPBLnEIaWeboKKbOsbRPflABvvyfYx6 Dv4rbuF5AmvtVEIQk4yQhdej1oITVXggR5JOZ1Jv3bKTM3xe0aokRCIXHNx5FBA8EKa 56sonbovfrYqC3QJx9GQ7sd2PyZxetLfEWK9VAaA= Message-ID: <01020185ea0f6992-77d208ac-1924-41fd-9d53-e0274d16291a-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:52:36 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.0 Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] arm64 support for stuart To: devel@edk2.groups.io, kraxel@redhat.com, Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Michael Kubacki , Sean Brogan , Michael Kinney , Jiewen Yao , Oliver Steffen References: <20230125165556.tvp7cgjsj2kie7b6@sirius.home.kraxel.org> From: "Michael Brown" In-Reply-To: <20230125165556.tvp7cgjsj2kie7b6@sirius.home.kraxel.org> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on blyat.fensystems.co.uk Feedback-ID: 1.eu-west-1.fspj4M/5bzJ9NLRzJP0PaxRwxrpZqiDQJ1IF94CF2TA=:AmazonSES X-SES-Outgoing: 2023.01.25-54.240.7.20 Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 25/01/2023 16:55, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> iasl is a different matter, as we need it to build for arm64 as well. >> iasl is already available in the arm64 distros, so as I see it, there >> are 3 options here: >> - build iasl for Linux/arm64 and add it to the nuget repo >> - allow a fallback to system-wide iasl (how?) > > Just use the system-wide tools is the best option IMHO. The packages > are available in Fedora (other distros should be have them too), on both > x86_64 and aarch64, we only need to add them to the CI container image. > So why bother adding nuget builds? I totally agree with this. Life is much easier when everything just uses the existing system-wide tools. Deliberately imposing a restriction that CI uses only system-wide tools also helps to prevent a project slipping down into the abyss of obscure dependencies and multi-GB custom SDK container images. Thanks, Michael