Bug 2058680 - Add AArch64 ipxe roms
Summary: Add AArch64 ipxe roms
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ipxe
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Fedora Virtualization Maintainers
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: ARMTracker
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Reported: 2022-02-25 15:30 UTC by Dennis Gilmore
Modified: 2022-04-04 18:04 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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: 2059349 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2022-04-04 18:04:00 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Dennis Gilmore 2022-02-25 15:30:42 UTC 
Description of problem:
upstream iPXE supports AArch64, the Fedora and RHEL builds do not build them. We have some use cases in OpenShift that will need iPXE for UEFI, use in QEMU and on baremetal should both work.
Comment 1 Yaakov Selkowitz 2022-03-01 03:19:33 UTC 
Filed PR: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ipxe/pull-request/3
Comment 2 Peter Robinson 2022-03-01 10:03:30 UTC 
> them. We have some use cases in OpenShift that will need iPXE for UEFI, use
> in QEMU and on baremetal should both work.

What are the usecases for iPXE?
Comment 3 Dennis Gilmore 2022-03-01 17:57:11 UTC 
Bare metal IPI is designed around ipxe.
Comment 4 Gerd Hoffmann 2022-03-10 11:05:38 UTC 
(In reply to Dennis Gilmore from comment #3)
> Bare metal IPI is designed around ipxe.

--verbose please.

What exactly do you need?  ipxe-snponly.efi I guess?
Why don't you just use standard UEFI network boot?
Comment 5 Yaakov Selkowitz 2022-04-01 04:17:53 UTC 
This is discussed at length in bug 2059350, through which a backport was accepted into 8.6.  Can we please proceed with the Fedora PR?
Comment 6 Cole Robinson 2022-04-04 18:04:00 UTC 
Merged and built now.

But fedora still has ipxe.efi. Any objections to ripping it out until there's a defined need? From the bug it sounds like all you need is snponly
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