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+# iPXE Build automation
+
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: © 2020 Open Networking Foundation <support@opennetworking.org>
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+SHELL = bash -eu -o pipefail
+
+# iPXE configuration
+IPXE_VERSION ?= v1.20.1
+TARGETS      ?= bin/undionly.kpxe bin/ipxe.usb
+OPTIONS      ?= EMBED=chain.ipxe
+COPY_FILES   ?= chain.ipxe
+
+# Build configuration
+OUTDIR       ?= $(shell pwd)/out
+BUILDER      := ipxebuilder-$(shell date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S")# timestamp for each run
+
+# phony (doesn't make files) targets
+.PHONY: base image clean clean-all license help
+
+ipxe: ## download and patch iPXE
+	git clone git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git \
+  && cd ipxe \
+  && git checkout $(IPXE_VERSION) \
+  && git apply ../patches/*
+
+out:
+	mkdir -p out
+
+base: | ipxe  ## create bas iPXE build container using Docker
+	docker build . -t ipxe-builder:$(IPXE_VERSION)
+
+image: | out base ## create iPXE binary artifacts using Docker
+	docker run -v $(OUTDIR):/tmp/out --name $(BUILDER) -d ipxe-builder:$(IPXE_VERSION)
+	docker cp $(COPY_FILES) $(BUILDER):/ipxe/src/
+	docker exec -w /ipxe/src $(BUILDER) \
+    bash -c "make -j4 $(TARGETS) $(OPTIONS); cp $(TARGETS) /tmp/out"
+	docker rm --force $(BUILDER)
+
+test: image  ## test (currently only runs an image build)
+
+clean: ## remove output artifacts
+	rm -rf out/*
+
+clean-all: clean ## full clean (delete iPXE git repo)
+	rm -rf ipxe
+
+license: ## check licenses
+	reuse --version ;\
+  reuse --root . lint
+
+help: ## Print help for each target
+	@echo infra-playbooks make targets
+	@echo
+	@grep '^[[:alnum:]_-]*:.* ##' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) \
+    | sort | awk 'BEGIN {FS=":.* ## "}; {printf "%-25s %s\n", $$1, $$2};'