Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RiscV64QemuVirt PATCH V8 00/19] Add support for RISC-V virt machine

["Oliver Steffen" <osteffen@redhat.com>]

Quoting Sunil V L (2023-02-17 05:27:15)
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 03:45:49PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 5:30 AM Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > REF: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4076
> > >
> > > Add support for RISC-V qemu virt machine. Most of the changes are migrated from
> > > edk2-platforms repo and added qemu specific libraries under OvmfPkg.
> > >
> > > The series has passed CI tests (https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/4023)
> > >
> > > These changes are available at: https://github.com/vlsunil/edk2/tree/RiscV64QemuVirt_V8
> > >
> > > The series can be tested as per instructions @
> > > https://github.com/vlsunil/riscv-uefi-edk2-docs/wiki/RISC-V-Qemu-Virt-support
> >
> > Hi Sunil,
> >
> >   Thanks for your work getting this merged! In the above wiki, it
> > notes that GCC 12+ is not supported. Is that still accurate? If so,
> > can you clarify what is blocking that?
> >
> Hi Dan,
>
> Please see https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4061.
>
> My attempt to fix this issue
> (https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/93831) was not accepted due to
> the concerns that it can cause weird issues in CI.
>
> So, we are left with either support gcc <12 or gcc >=12. We can mandate
> gcc 12 itself for RISC-V, but that change need to be done hand in hand
> with CI tests moving to use gcc 12. Otherwise, it will break CI.
>
> Let me check with CI owners on their roadmap to move to gcc 12.
>
> Thanks,
> Sunil
>

Adding Chris.

Pull request for a new contaimer image for Linux CI jobs with gcc12 is
open:
https://github.com/tianocore/containers/pull/60

Meanwhile you could try this image (temporary test build) in the CI:

  docker pull ghcr.io/osteffenrh/edk2-containers/fedora-37-test:latest

- Oliver