Updating uefi-edk2-bhyve

D Scott Phillips d.scott.phillips at intel.com
Mon Mar 25 22:00:51 UTC 2019


Rebecca Cran <rebecca at bluestop.org> writes:

> On 3/22/19 4:29 PM, Rebecca Cran via freebsd-virtualization wrote:
> > On 3/22/19 2:25 PM, D Scott Phillips wrote:
> >
> > > Hmm, I guess it might be some diference in the code generation
> > > between gcc 4.8 and gcc 5.
> >
> >
> > I've just tested switching from gcc 4.8 to 8.3.0 and everything
> > seems to work fine - both build and runtime - so I think it may be
> > more productive to upgrade and use that instead, since it's a
> > supported version (gcc 4.8 is pretty old now). Would you agree?

Yep, makes sense to me. For either of these changes we would want to get
test converage on basically all functionality, so might as well take
both changes at once.

> I've submitted a couple of merge requests to update your edk2 tree and
> port for gcc 8:
>
> https://gitlab.com/scott-ph/edk2/merge_requests/1
>
> https://gitlab.com/scott-ph/freebsd-ports/merge_requests/1

Thanks, those changes are working well for me. Merged.


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