On 12/05/19 20:00, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > The Debian (based) distributions currently provides 2 ARM > toolchains, documented as [1]: > > * The ARM EABI (armel) port targets a range of older 32-bit ARM > devices, particularly those used in NAS hardware and a variety > of *plug computers. > * The newer ARM hard-float (armhf) port supports newer, more > powerful 32-bit devices using version 7 of the ARM architecture > specification. > > For various reasons documented in [2], the EDK2 project recommend > to use the softfloat toolchain (named 'armel' by Debian). > > Force the softfloat cross toolchain prefix on Debian distributions. > > [1] https://www.debian.org/ports/arm/#status > [2] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/41203b9a
Ah cool, this answers my earlier question -- "the GCCx toolchain targets can use either when building for ARM". Still not sure if this is a "recommendation" for using soft-float, but if it works, I'm OK with it. > > Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> > --- > roms/edk2-funcs.sh | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/roms/edk2-funcs.sh b/roms/edk2-funcs.sh > index 3f4485b201..abd6bbe1fd 100644 > --- a/roms/edk2-funcs.sh > +++ b/roms/edk2-funcs.sh > @@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ qemu_edk2_get_cross_prefix() > ( [ "$gcc_arch" == i686 ] && [ "$host_arch" == x86_64 ] ); then > # no cross-compiler needed > : > + elif ( [ -e /etc/debian_version ] && [ "$gcc_arch" == arm ] ); then > + # force hard-float cross-compiler on Debian The comment has not been updated; it still says hard-float. With the comment updated: Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> Thanks, Laszlo > + printf 'arm-linux-gnueabi-' > else > printf '%s-linux-gnu-\n' "$gcc_arch" > fi >
