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Re: [RFC 1/1] mkimage: revert "Align efi sections on 4k boundary"


From: Daniel Kiper
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/1] mkimage: revert "Align efi sections on 4k boundary"
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 16:55:12 +0200
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 09:11:50PM +0200, Jesús Diéguez Fernández wrote:
> El 19/4/19 a las 17:32, Julien ROBIN escribió:
> > Thanks Heinrich, so I tested with your approach and u-boot.bin.
> >
>
> [...]
>
> >
> >
> > /PS : may be making a summary of all architectures/configurations tests
> > tutorials would be useful ? Even if it's just QEMU (it would even be a
> > lot of work), and used on new releases or wide changes, or just from
> > time to time to see if no accident happened in any recent changes. It
> > would also be an awesome tutorial for people starting to deal with grub/
> >
>
> As a complete newbie, I can confirm that this is a real need. I recently
> contributed a small modification and didn't know exactly which
> compilation options I should enable. I finally used a configuration I
> found elsewhere, but that's inconsistent if the official way ignores
> some warnings or the other way around, treats all warnings as errors.
>
> I know that recently a travis configuration file was added to test that
> GRUB builds fine on different platforms. I think that improving it has
> more value than just creating a plain text documentation.
>
> The travis integration requires that the code must be hosted on github
> (or setup something like this https://stackoverflow.com/a/49019950 ).
> Would it be possible to set a remote copy of GRUB's repository on
> github? I mean, not my personal copy, but an official mirror, something
> like the linux kernel has.
> That would allow anyone to make trivial forks on their github account
> that can be tested with travis. To deal with the PR submissions on
> github, the kernel has a bot that automatically replies to people (see
> this example
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/663#issuecomment-474615610 ).
>
> This way around, the only documentation that should be added to
> grub-dev.texi would be this workflow:
>
> Fork from github -> make changes -> validate travis build -> send patch.

Thank you for the input. Right now we are focusing on the release.
However, after that we are going to change various things in the GRUB
project. We will be looking at GRUB code test automation, etc. too.
So, I hope that at some point we will have something similar to the
thing used by Linux kernel folks.

Daniel



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