Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH] BaseTools: support arm64 as a platform name in addition to aarch64

["Rebecca Cran" <rebecca@bluestop.org>]

On 2019-04-11 11:52, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 04/11/19 16:23, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> On 4/11/19 5:16 AM, Rebecca Cran via Groups.Io wrote:
>>> Some systems such as FreeBSD identify the platform as 'arm64'
>>> and not 'aarch64' as Linux does.
>> Per https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220297
>> this seems to be a FreeBSD bug.
> You are correct, but that issue was filed on 2017-06-26. I don't think
> we should hold our breaths, as long as the workaround is simple. And, it
> does look simple. (We've worked around worse.)
>
> I do suggest an addition to the patch, however: Rebecca, please add the
> link discovered by Phil near the "arm64" matches, in a comment.
> Something like:
>
> # work around <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220297>



Thanks, I'll do that. I don't think there's anything to fix, because 
"uname -m" returns "arm64" and "uname -p" "aarch64". The EDK2 Makefiles 
use "uname -m" which I don't think anybody has complained about, but 
which return different values on Linux and FreeBSD.


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Rebecca Cran