Re: [Xen-devel] Can't build ipxe with 6.1.1

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/09/16 20:40, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 09/01/2016 03:35 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> On 01/09/16 20:27, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>> Newer gcc (6.1.1 is what I am using with Fedora 24) is having trouble
>>> compiling ipxe that is fetched by Xen, mostly due to stricter checks.
>>>
>>> I have a patch that fixes all these warnings but do we want it or should
>>> we instead upgrade to latest ipxe version? (It builds fine but I haven't
>>> tested it).
>> We should really update to a newer iPXE.
>>
>> The version pulled from xenbits is ages old, and there is no excuse for
>> having a opencoded patch queue on top of it.
>>
>> It would be better if it could switch to being like seabios, with a git
>> tree rather than a tarball, and a --with-system-ipxe= ./configure
>> option.  This will finally get rid of the last wget'ism out of the
>> non-stubdom build, which is a distinct improvement for most downstream
>> consumers of the project.
>>
>> (I realise I am dumping part of my TODO list on you, but you literally
>> are asking for it with that question :) - if not, I will get around to
>> it some day.)
> Sure, I'll look at this.

Ian: Can we see about getting xenbits:ipxe.git which works, and is
tested by osstest, in the same way as seabios currently is?

iPXE has a rolling release with no specific version number, but does
have a xen-netfront implementation (when we start using a version which
isn't 6 years old), so some system testing of PXE booting HVM guests
would be a good move.

~Andrew

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