On 9/22/20 8:42 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 08:03:49PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > >> Most users don't need the standalone API examples. Distributions like Suse >> do not supply libgcc for cross-compiling and we cannot do without on ARMv8 >> for building examples/. >> >> Make examples customizable via symbol CONFIG_EXAMPLES. It only defaults to >> yes to ensure that we compile it on Gitlab CI. > > In this case we should not make it "default y" but instead enable it in > some specific cases that go through CI. Probably once per arch/ > directory on the QEMU / virtual target for that arch.
default y if ARCH_QEMU would compile it > >> Cc: Matthias Brugger <mbrug...@suse.com> >> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de> >> --- >> I wonder if we should not completely drop the standalone API. The UEFI API >> has enough to run a standalone application. > > I'm certainly in favor of NOT adding support there for new > architectures. I don't believe however we can drop it for existing > architectures without some fairly large notice, and only then when UEFI > is available as a reasonable replacement (ARM? Yes. MIPS? No idea). > UEFI is low endian only. Best regards Heinrich
