21.12.2025 15:42, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas пишет:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 05:07:39PM +0000, Klemens Nanni wrote:
>> 22.11.2025 14:48, Klemens Nanni пишет:
>>> The port itself supports any architecture, but builds only amd64 and arm64
>>> as others have not been tested (riscv64 and loongson might be of interest).
>>>
>>> It requires GNU tools incl. compiler and linker, we have everything except
>>> - ports@ "binutils: enable ld.bfd ?"
>>>
>>> Once all knobs and found and set properly, GNU make compiles all files
>>> always compiles all files (see https://dox.ipxe.org/ifdef_harmful.html)
>>> and then links targets according to config.
>>>
>>> I want to be able to serve images for several architectures from a single
>>> netboot server and avoid cross compilation, so this port uses MACHINE_ARCH
>>> in PKGNAME and sets PKG_ARCH=*;  per-arch files don't conflict and even
>>> per-platform (e.g. EFI or BIOS) files seem to end up with unique tuples
>>> of what upstream calls drivers and extensions, see Files below as well as
>>> https://ipxe.org/appnote/buildtargets.
>>>
>>> Then I can serve, e.g. ipxe.efi over TFTP or HTTP and further do whatever
>>> on the clients, for example through autoexec.ipxe, which it tries to load
>>> from the server by default.
>> Here's an updated and tidied version.  As with binutils, I left support and
>> merely omitted/commented arm64 in ONLY_FOR_ARCHS.
>>
>> The port is available in openbsd-wip.
>>
>> Feedback? OK to import once ports@ "binutils: enable ld.bfd ?" is settled?
> 
> Not ok as is.  Quoting my latest reply to the ld.bfd thread:
> |I still think that's the wrong way to go.  I see no point tying our
> |hands with building standalone programs using a generic "native
> |ports-gcc" + "native devel/binutils" toolchain, when all that is
> |needed is a freestanding toolchain.
> |
> |Who will fix net/ipxe when it's on the way of a ports-gcc or devel/gas
> |update?  On this matter: you've explicitely made the devel/gas and
> |devel/binutils ports tightly bound, making it impossible to update
> |devel/gas without updating devel/binutils.  Someone updating devel/gas
> |would then feel forced to check that the new devel/binutils version
> |can still build net/ipxe on all architectures where it is enabled.
> |
> |All of this disappears if you use cross-compiling with a stable
> |toolchain like u-boot does.
> 
> The diff below is a *PoC* to build ipxe for aarch64 using
> devel/arm-none-eabi/*,aarch64, allowing us to cross-compile from amd64
> and others if desired (tested, build succeeds then fails at pcbios,
> but this is only a PoC).  _I haven't tested the resulting aarch64
> standalone executables_.
Right, i missed arm-none-eabi/gcc which has ld.bfd, thanks.
BIOS on arm64 is not supported, so it cannot build.

amd64 from my new port tarball boots fine, arm64 gets tested later.

> Obviously such a freestanding toolchain doesn't exist for i386/x86_64,
> so we'd have to add that first if we wanted to go on the same path for
> all architectures.  Since I don't have a need for such a toolchain,
> I'm not volunteering for the job.

amd64 can build natively and cross every other architecture.

I did that now through ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=amd64 FLAVORS=aarch64 FLAVOR=
together with proper Makefile bits such that new architectures can be
added for native- and/or cross-builds (after build and boot tests).

Feedback? OK?

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