On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 09:44:08AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 16/10/2012 18:27, Karsten Hopp ha scritto: > >> We would like a packaging exception which would allow us to import the > >> seabios-bin package (built on little-endian) into the ppc & ppc64 > >> buildroots. > > > > I'm all for it. We wouldn't ship a binary without sources, just one that > > got compiled on a x86 Fedora builder and got repackaged for PPC. > > As you can see in bugzillas 866664, 856856 and 865013, fixing iasl might > > become a major effort and the other option of dropping x86 support in > > the PPC qemu doesn't seem the right thing to do here. > > Quick googling revealed Debian patches that fix all the endianness > issues and let SeaBIOS be built with a cross-compiler. > > The only snag is that the Debian patches are against an older version of > iasl than what is now in rawhide. But the new version was imported in > rawhide just last week by Richard, presumably in an attempt to fix this > problem, and IMO can be reverted to the older one. I'm not sure if it > requires bumping the epoch of the iasl package, but that's a minor evil. OK, although the new version of iasl is also a lot more sane (in terms of build system, lack of gross C errors) than the old version. Maybe the Debian patch can be applied to the new version instead? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
