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[RFC PATCH] add iPXE.

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Message #23 received at 40579 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>, 40579 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] gnu: Add iPXE.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:11:29 +0200

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Hello,


On 13/04/2020 01:28, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> The image still isn't reproducible, but it has much fewer dates in it
> now and it actually boots ;-) [citation needed].


I tried it in qemu, got confused by its own ipxe stack, but I

think it then went to isolinux which is from the ipxe.iso image...


> I've silenced some other annoying warnings during the build, and
> applied some of my suggestions from my previous mail (not all though —
> please do send a V3).


This new patch has the following changes:


* used git-file-name


* build everything, as I didn't know what subset to choose


* install everything in ...-ipxe-1.20.1/lib/ipxe with subdirs

for per-arch binaries: bin-i386, etc. You spoke about lib

but put them in share, so I choose to change to the former


* do the install phase in scheme, as it was easier to handle

the above item than to generate a proper makefile target


* only install files with specified extensions, this will get rid

of the .a and other irrelevant files


> Neither mtools nor XZ were ever used.  Why were they there?


I initially added the inputs in bulk from the build instructions

on the website, and forgot to check their usefulness before

sending the patch RFC.


-- 

Vincent Legoll

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