[OE-core] [PATCH v2] binutils : enable x86_64-pep for producing EFI binaries

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2018-07-25 at 16:46 -0700, Christopher Clark wrote:
> From: Christopher Clark <christopher.clark6 at baesystems.com>
> 
> On EFI architectures (arm/x86/x86_64/aarch64) add the x86_64-pep
> emulation support to the linker to enable production of Portable
> Executables for EFI binaries.
> 
> Enables building the EFI variant of the Xen hypervisor.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christopher Clark <christopher.clark6 at baesystems.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
> b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
> index 37813dd..b3efbad 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils.inc
> @@ -69,12 +69,19 @@ python do_package_prepend() {
>  
>  B = "${S}/build.${HOST_SYS}.${TARGET_SYS}"
>  
> +def enable_efi_targets(d):
> +    translated_arch = d.getVar('TRANSLATED_TARGET_ARCH')
> +    if translated_arch in ["x86-64", "i586", "i686", "arm",
> "aarch64"]:
> +        return "--enable-targets=x86_64-pep"
> +    return ""

Just to double check, is "x86_64-pep" the right value even on arm?

Cheers,

Richard