On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 9:24 PM Marius Bakke <mar...@gnu.org> wrote: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > > grub <- qemu-minimal <- ipxe-qemu <- ipxe <- syslinux > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > > > with syslinux that only supports x86_64-linux and i686-linux. > > > > I'm not sure how to break that path. It looks like qemu-minimal is > > required by grub for test purposes. Maybe we could restrict that > > dependency and the tests to x86_64-linux and i686-linux? > > I don't know what iPXE uses syslinux for (CC Vincent); it appears to > build fine without it. I made the dependency conditional on > architecture in d15972194aaef17fd1f7fd713d235c70794c9d4f, that way QEMU > should still work on aarch64.
I don't know for sure, but searching a bit, I've found 2 references to syslinux : You will need to have at least the following packages installed in order to build iPXE: [...] - syslinux (for isolinux, needed only for building .iso images) [...] See page : https://ipxe.org/download?s[]=syslinux And : To be able to boot memtest, there are a couple requirements: [...] The memdisk kernel from the syslinux library [...] See page : https://ipxe.org/appnote/memtest?s[]=syslinux So maybe add a comment somewhere explaining that those 2 things won't work on any arch != x86_* Maybe just add that to the commitmsg... Regards -- Vincent Legoll