Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 19:09 +0900, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote: > Source: linux > Version: 5.9.11-1 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-grub-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net > > Dear Maintainer, > > grub-efi-arm:armel package remains almost unusable for very long time. > To boot a kernel in UEFI mode, it must be compiled with CONFIG_EFI. > But no Debian armel kernel (specifically linux-image-marvell or > linux-image-rpi) is built with CONFIG_EFI. > This leaves armel grub-efi-arm package almost useless. I wasn't aware that this package existed until now... > For example, trying to boot linux-image-marvell by grub-efi-arm:armel > shows the following message: [...] The marvell flavour is constrained by memory and partition limits on many of the supported machines, so it is unlikely that we would want to increase its size further by enabling EFI support. The rpi flavour doesn't have those constraints, though. What would be the benefit of booting it in UEFI mode? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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