Re: [edk2-devel] Expansion of ARCH in .dsc files

["Leif Lindholm via groups.io" <leif.lindholm=oss.qualcomm.com@groups.io>]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 at 15:01, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Because "the list of all architectures being built simultaneously"
> > simply isn't very useful information build-time.
>
> I think this is not intended for building all archs in simultaneously
> (even though that often works too), but for firmware images using code
> from multiple architectures.  That is (or used to be?) common in the x86
> world, where firmware can run the PEI phase in 32-bit mode (aka IA32)
> and the DXE phase in 64-bit mode (aka X64).
>
> See OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc

Yes, indeed.
It feels like a bit of a hack introduced specifically for that
specific case (but not documented as such).

So, Ajan - I guess that means arguably the CI job should be reworked
to call the different arch builds independently. Then the problem
would go away even without the Defines.$ARCH change.

/
    Leif


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