hvmloader: add knob for fixed SMBIOS date string

To allow reproducible builds of hvmloader introduce a make variable
SMBIOS_REL_DATE=mm/dd/yyyy to provide a fixed date string. Without this
change the hvmloader binary changes with every rebuild.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 1ed44bb8a3f4eb7113ad6f62a649bb24106696f1..bf412ef35e1acb35634f7f279e29e8a12c907234 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ into the binaries. To allow reproducible builds the following variables
 can be used to provide fixed timestamps in the expected format.
 XEN_BUILD_DATE=<output of date(1)>
 XEN_BUILD_TIME=hh:mm:ss
+SMBIOS_REL_DATE=mm/dd/yyyy
 
 The following variables can be used to tweak some aspects of the
 hypervisor build.

diff --git a/tools/firmware/hvmloader/Makefile b/tools/firmware/hvmloader/Makefile
index cf967fdac4aa518ebdba83ddf8b2d3ecca51969e..34008d2a13f7a7528bcefad91dca8f7d3e33091d 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/firmware/hvmloader/Makefile
+++ b/tools/firmware/hvmloader/Makefile
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ SUBDIRS := acpi
 # The HVM loader is started in 32-bit mode at the address below:
 LOADADDR = 0x100000
 
+# SMBIOS spec requires format mm/dd/yyyy
+SMBIOS_REL_DATE ?= $(shell date +%m/%d/%Y)
+
 CFLAGS += $(CFLAGS_xeninclude)
 
 OBJS  = hvmloader.o mp_tables.o util.o smbios.o 
@@ -88,7 +91,7 @@ all: subdirs-all
        $(MAKE) hvmloader
 
 ovmf.o rombios.o seabios.o hvmloader.o: roms.inc
-smbios.o: CFLAGS += -D__SMBIOS_DATE__="\"$(shell date +%m/%d/%Y)\""
+smbios.o: CFLAGS += -D__SMBIOS_DATE__="$(SMBIOS_REL_DATE)"
 
 hvmloader: $(OBJS) acpi/acpi.a
        $(LD) $(LDFLAGS_DIRECT) -N -Ttext $(LOADADDR) -o hvmloader.tmp $^