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Hafnium fails to build on arm64 hosts
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Building hafnium on arm64 hosts isn't possible out of the box:

./prebuilts/linux-x64/gn/gn: 1: ELF: not found
./prebuilts/linux-x64/gn/gn: 2: @: not found
./prebuilts/linux-x64/gn/gn: 1: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting ")"

The Makefile sets PREBUILTS to .../linux-x64, so tries to run x86-64 binaries on an arm64 host.

If I edit the Makefile to use linux-aarch64, then the build fails as there is no gn binary.

After setting GN and NINJA to external binaries, the build still fails as x86 is hard-coded in build/image/dtc.py:

DTC_ROOT = os.path.join(HF_ROOT, "prebuilts", "linux-x64", "dtc")

I have DTC binaries, so that's fine. If I patch dtc.py to use relative paths it will find those.

|   File "/yocto/ross/build/tmp/work/tc0-poky-linux/hafnium/2.4+gitAUTOINC+fe7f737ec2-r0/git/prebuilts/linux-x64/clang/bin/clang", line 162, in invoke_compiler
|     os.execv(self.argv0, self.execargs)
| OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error

I'm sorry, Hafnium embeds its own copies of clang and gcc?

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rossburton updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 22 2021, 4:51 PM
rossburton updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 22 2021, 5:14 PM
qwandor added a subscriber: qwandor.Mar 22 2021, 5:19 PM

Yes, we include a prebuilt toolchain so that the builds are reproducible. It's a copy of the Android prebuilt toolchain (from https://android.googlesource.com/platform/prebuilts/clang/host/linux-x86/), which I'm afraid doesn't seem to include aarch64 binaries at the moment.

rossburton added a comment.Mar 22 2021, 6:38 PM

That's a very interesting definition of reproducible.

Is it possible to use the host toolchain instead?

qwandor added a comment.Mar 23 2021, 9:56 AM

That's not currently supported.

odeprez closed this task as Resolved.Jan 19 2022, 2:15 PM
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Hi Ross, following changes were merged which help building on Arm and integrating to Yocto. Let us know how it goes. Thanks.

https://review.trustedfirmware.org/q/topic:od/hafnium-toolchain+status:merged
https://review.trustedfirmware.org/q/topic:%2522db/hafnium-toolchain%2522+status:merged
https://review.trustedfirmware.org/q/topic:od/hf-clang12+status:merged