Daniele,

The logo issue is due to the  [Hii-Binary-Package.UEFI_HII] build rule not being supported by XCODE and RVCT those toolchains don’t contain resource compilers for PE/COFF files so they can’t inject HII into PE/COFF images. I submitted patches to fix this a while back and they got stuck and I got bogged down on my day job. This reminds me I need to get those patches moving again.

Due to the issue above the XCODE build skips some drivers/apps in OVMF [1] but I don’t think that is your issue?

I don’t think it is likely that your graphics issue is related to HII resources. Most of the times when I track down the “it does not work with clang (Xcode uses clang)” it ends up being the clang compiler optimizing away undefined behavior that the other compilers ignored. I’m not sure if there is a another clang toolchain you could try? That would be helpful to know if it is likely an undefined behavior difference.

Unfortunately the graphics issue is going to be hard to track down if we can’t reproduce it locally.

[1] Easiest way to find them is:

/Volumes/Case/edk2-github(master)>git grep '$(TOOL_CHAIN_TAG) == "XCODE5"'

OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc:252:!if $(TOOL_CHAIN_TAG) == "XCODE5"

OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc:256:!if $(TOOL_CHAIN_TAG) == "XCODE5"

OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc:256:!if $(TOOL_CHAIN_TAG) == "XCODE5"

OvmfPkg/OvmfXen.dsc:233:!if $(TOOL_CHAIN_TAG) == "XCODE5"

UefiCpuPkg/UefiCpuPkg.dsc:63:!if $(TOOL_CHAIN_TAG) == "XCODE5"

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

On Oct 15, 2020, at 8:22 AM, crudo.daniele@gmail.com wrote:

Good morning, I have an issue with compiled OVMF_CODE.fd and OVMF_VARS.fd with xcode5 on mac os - Catalina 10.15.7 (I tried v. 202005 and v. 202008 stable releases from github).
My commands for v. 202008, on mac OS:

git clone https://github.com/tianocore/edk2.git
cd edk2
git clean -ffdx
git reset --hard
git submodule deinit --force --all
git checkout edk2-stable202008
git submodule update --init --force
source edksetup.sh
nice make -C "$EDK_TOOLS_PATH" -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
build -a X64 -b RELEASE -p OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc -t XCODE5

Files are compiled and saved (apparently correctly).
And I'm using OVMF_CODE.fd and OVMF_VARS.fd to boot a mac OS vm with QEMU/KVM.
I noticed that with that files I have no tianocore logo at boot and moreover, since I have gpu passthrough I cannot boot the vm if hdmi is not attached (2 monitors setup, hdmi<-->hdmi and dvi<-->dvi to vga adapter<-->vga).
If I have hdmi attached I can boot without any problem.

I tried to compile with the same commands edk2 on kali linux, except for the last line which became:
build -a X64 -b RELEASE -p OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc -t GCC5

and the generated files work well (I have the tianocore logo and I can boot without hdmi attached, i.e. only one monitor).

What's going on?
Anybody can explain?
Is xcode5 incompatible, is there something wrong in the code or is it my fault?
At the beginning I thought about an edk2 bug, so I opened an issue into the bugtracker, full history here:
Bug 3006

I attach also the compilation log from mac OS.

Thanks

Daniele

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