Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.8] ipxe: update to newer commit

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 10:04:11AM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 05:03:11PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > On 10/12/2016 05:27 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 08:31:31PM +0100, Juergen Schinker wrote:
> > >>  
> > >>> We're going to tag rc2 some time this week. Thanks for help testing Xen!
> > >>>
> > >>> Wei.
> > >>>
> > >>>> J
> > >>>>
> > >>>> ----- On 11 Oct, 2016, at 09:37, Wei Liu wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> No, you can try to work around this issue by appending 
> > >>>>> --disable-rombios
> > >>>>> to your ./configure invocation. You can test major functionalities of
> > >>>>> Xen just fine without rombios.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Wei.
> > >> Now for the fun of it I tried the RELEASE-4.7 
> > >>
> > >> and it turns out it has no support for xz-decompression 
> > >>
> > > That's probably because you don't have libzx development package
> > > installed when building Xen.
> > 
> > 
> > Which would be a new requirement for building Xen. And it broke our
> > (pre-historic) build server that never had it installed.
> > 
> 
> I don't think it breaks building Xen -- you just can't decompress xz
> format file, right? Otherwise Juergen would not have been able to build
> Xen.

Now I see what happened -- upstream ipxe now requires lzma to build.

I can document that in README.

Wei.

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