[yocto] qemu EFI build failure

[Kamble, Nitin A]

I just sent a patch to oecore mailing list to fix the grub issue with automake 1.11.2.

Thanks,
Nitin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hart, Darren
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:39 PM
> To: Bodke, Kishore K
> Cc: Ahmad, Josef; yocto at yoctoproject.org; Kamble, Nitin A
> Subject: Re: [yocto] qemu EFI build failure
> 
> On 01/12/2012 01:28 PM, Bodke, Kishore K wrote:
> > I have only
> > MACHINE_FEATURES += "efi"
> > KERNEL_FEATURES_append_cedartrail += "cfg/efi-ext.scc".
> >
> > I am not having IMAGE_FSTYPES += "live".
> 
> The "live" change is just to trigger the live image type which builds
> grub-efi-native for efi systems. qemux86 needs this added explicitly.
> 
> --
> Darren
> 
> >
> > Thanks
> > Kishore.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hart, Darren
> > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:20 PM
> > To: Ahmad, Josef
> > Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org; Bodke, Kishore K; Kamble, Nitin A
> > Subject: Re: [yocto] qemu EFI build failure
> >
> > On 01/12/2012 10:27 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 01/12/2012 08:19 AM, Josef Ahmad wrote:
> >>> I tried to build a qemux86 EFI image, by setting:
> >>> - in my local.conf: IMAGE_FSTYPES += "live"
> >>> - in poly/meta/conf/machine/qemux86.conf: MACHINE_FEATURES += "efi"
> >>>
> >>
> >> I haven't tried live images with QEMU. For one thing, they aren't
> really
> >> necessary as you can specify all the boot parameters on the qemu
> command
> >> line. Is there are reason you want to use the live image
> specifically?
> >>
> >> Also, in order to properly test EFI in QEMU, you will need to use an
> EFI
> >> BIOS - I believe you're aware of this already - but this isn't
> currently
> >> supported by the runqemu scripts that ship with yocto.
> >>
> >>> The build gave me the following error:
> >>
> >>
> >> I'll do some test builds - it isn't clear to me what is going on
> here.
> >>
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Has anyone encountered the same error?  I'm not sure I set up the
> >>> correct configuration. Also, is there another way to append "efi"
> to
> >>> MACHINE_FEATURES rather than by modifying qemux86.conf?
> >>
> >> You should be able to do something like:
> >> MACHINE_FEATURES_append_qemux86 = "efi"
> >>
> >> Note that you will also need to enable the efi support in the
> kernel,
> >> which is done with the KERNEL_FEATURES variable, something like:
> >> KERNEL_FEATURES_append_qemux86 = "conf/efi-ext.scc"
> >>
> >> Either of these can be set in your local.conf.
> >>
> >
> > More accurately:
> >
> > MACHINE_FEATURES_append_qemux86=" efi pcbios"
> > KERNEL_FEATURES_append_qemux86=" cfg/efi-ext.scc"
> > IMAGE_FSTYPES += "live"
> >
> > With these added to local.conf and building for qemux86 I see the
> same
> > configure failures reported by Kishore and Josef:
> >
> > | ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded
> from...
> > | acinclude.m4:363: grub_CHECK_STACK_ARG_PROBE is expanded from...
> >
> > I've discussed in IRC with Nitin and he thinks this may be related to
> > the automake update and is looking into it.
> >
> 
> 
> --
> Darren Hart
> Intel Open Source Technology Center
> Yocto Project - Linux Kernel