Provide Arm-based OS container

[Damien-Chen]

In future, more and more people may use Arm-based system to develope UEFI system firmware.
According to the issue in edk2 here.

We should provide Arm-based container for edk2 CI pipepline.
May I know if the Tianocore members is happy with these ?

If it`s feasible, I will develop the Arm-based container for it.

[osteffenrh]

Sounds good to me.

[osteffenrh]

Please start with the Fedora 41 image, since this will be used in the x64 CI.

[Damien-Chen]

Understood, will start on Fedora 41 AArch64 container.

[Damien-Chen]

It seems that git-credential-manager don`t have linux Arm-64 version, @osteffenrh from your point of view, how to handle that ?

[osteffenrh]

That is only used for developer convenience.
CI does not use it. I think we can do without for now.

[Damien-Chen]

It can build
build_step "ArmVirtPkg/PlatformCI/QemuBuild.py" "AARCH64"
build_step "ArmVirtPkg/PlatformCI/QemuBuild.py" "ARM"
Bud always fail on
build_step "OvmfPkg/PlatformCI/PlatformBuild.py" "X64"

To build X64 on Arm-64 OS, we need to install gcc-x86_64-linux-gnu cross compiler.
But I try export GCC, or anything other method.
It still fail to build OvmfX64.dsc
https://github.com/Damien-Chen/containers/actions/runs/16625140524/job/47039392313

[osteffenrh]

Hm yeah, it is calling "gcc" which is probably the aarch64 one and not the x86_64 cross.
Not sure why that is the case though.

[Damien-Chen]

I found someone faced similar error as mine
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/question-about-edk2-uefi-build/236888

In installation, the followin error happen in Check(Linux) stage:
Note: It`s part of error log.

ERROR - mu_nasm is host specific, but does not appear to have support for Host(os='Linux', arch='ARM', bit='64'). ERROR - Verify support for detected host: Host(os='Linux', arch='ARM', bit='64') and contact dependency provider to add support. ERROR - Otherwise, delete the external dependency directory to reset. ERROR - edk2-acpica-iasl is host specific, but does not appear to have support for Host(os='Linux', arch='ARM', bit='64').

I think some packages are still not available on Arm-64 platform.

[osteffenrh]

Hm.

The Check(Linux) stage is only there as a simple smoke-test to see if the image can build something at all. This can be modified or skipped if we feel that it helps us.

Are you able to cross-build OvmfPkg for x64 at all, locally (without using the CI)?

[Damien-Chen]

Yes, I think I can modify the script so that it will not build OvmfPkg on AArch-64 OS temporarily.