Hello, On 21 Aug 2016 2:00 p.m., "Bastian Blank" <wa...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi folks > > I currently maintain ipxe. It is usualy used by x86 qemu to do all the > network stuff. It also provides a large binary that can be loaded by > grub. > > As it is pulled in by qemu-system-x86 it needs to be installable on any > Debian architecture. Currently it only ships an arch-all package that > suffices this requirement, but it can only be built on i386 and amd64. > The other solution at the time would be using cross compiler and build > it seperately on each architecture. > > Now ipxe started to get arm support. I have no idea if it is already > usable for qemu or what else. > > It should be possible to build arch-all packages during builds on > different architectures. Aka build ipxe-qemu:all on i386 and > ipxe-qemu-arm:all on armel. But I don't think this is a nice thing to > do. > > It is also possible to use multiarch. This would make qemu-system-x86 > uninstallable as long as i386 or amd64 is not enabled. > > Any thoughts on this? >
Similar story for s390x virtio qemu bootloader support code. Currently sources are in src:qemu, should be arch:all, can be compiled with native or s390x cross compiler. So far we have infrastructure to declare a particular source package to be build on particular arch, but then one needs to split that arch bootloader code into separate package... It would be nice to declare Arch:all packages that are Build-Arch: s390x. That way e.g. there are multiple arch:all builds despatched to build most arch:all packages on arch:all builder, this arch:all package on s390x, and all the arch:any packages everywhere else. Regards, Dimitri.
