svn commit: r499851 - in head/sysutils: . uefi-edk2-bhyve-devel uefi-edk2-bhyve-devel/files

Marcelo Araujo araujobsdport at gmail.com
Sun Apr 28 02:49:53 UTC 2019


On Sun, Apr 28, 2019, 6:27 AM Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer.com wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Apr 2019, Marcelo Araujo wrote:
> >   - Add a devel version of edk2-bhyve based on the newest stable201903
> branch.
>
> This is cool!
>
> > Added: head/sysutils/uefi-edk2-bhyve-devel/Makefile
> >
> ==============================================================================
> > +USE_GCC=     8+
>
> I notice this uses a modern version of GCC, whereas uefi-edk2-bhyve
> is stuck with USE_GCC=4.8 as one of only two ports requiring this
> ancient version of GCC.
>

Yeah, I know about that, shame on me :D



> So thank for working on this update!
>
> When do you think uefi-edk2-bhyve can be switched over?
>

There is not a clear deadline, but I would say half year or less perhaps.
Depends how many bhyve users test the new uefi version and also reports
about it.

But we are going in a good direction and things seems stable.

I will public ask on virtualization mailing list for tests to try to speed
up the transition.


> > +RUN_DEPENDS:=        ${RUN_DEPENDS:Ngcc*}
>
> I'll shortly have an update that will allow us to simplify that.
> Makes your life a bit easier. :-)
>

That would be fantastic!

Thank you for the hard work done on GCC along these years.

>
> Gerald
>


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