Re: EFI image - SAL_DESC_PLATFORM_FEATURE bits

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:22:34AM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Tristan Gingold wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:50:41AM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>> Hi Tristan,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the info - where do I find the firmware? Is it in the Xen
>>> hg repositories?
>>
>> Yes,
>> xenbits.xensource.com/efi-vfirmware.hg
>
> [jes@leavenworth lw]$ hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/efi-vfirmware.hg
> requesting all changes
> abort: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> [jes@leavenworth lw]$
>
> Is this the correct address? It's been ages since I used mercurial, so
> maybe I have gone a little rusty.
 
Humm, you're right.  Try:
http://xenbits.xen.org/ext/efi-vfirmware.hg

>>> I was hoping it would be a walk in the park to build, but I kinda feared
>>> you would say that. Do I need a special environment to build it, like a
>>> special pre-historic version of GCC running on RHEL 3 or something like
>>> that?
>> Worse: you need a java environment.
>> Recent versions of TianoCore uses python (which must be much easier to build)
>> but I haven't time to update.
>
> Gosh, you really know how to make my day :-( I have a feeling I am going
> to regret getting into this :-)

Sorry :-)

Tristan.