[Buildroot] [PATCH 7/8] package/edk2-images: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 13:43:38 +0000
"D. Olsson" <hi at senzilla.io> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 11:34, Kory Maincent
> <kory.maincent at bootlin.com> wrote:
> 
> > In order to add support for EFI boot from the emulator, this patch
> > add a package to download the EFI BIOS prebuilt binary from:
> > https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/edk2/  
> 
> Since a few months[1] it's been possible to build EDK2 from source in
> Buildroot. Would it be possible to extend the existing package
> instead of duplicating the effort by maintaining two packages?
> 
> [1]:
> https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/log/boot/edk2/edk2.hash?showmsg=1

When Köry packaged edk2-images, I indeed thought of the fact that we
can now build EDK2 from source. That being said, to quickly get an EFI
BIOS image to do tests under Qemu, a pre-built EDK2 image is quite nice.

I'll let others comment on this.

Best regards,

Thomas
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