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Bug#381584: efi-vars still missing in new 2.6.17-2 kernel



On Sunday 24 September 2006 18:29, Joey Hess wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> > The EFI modules are now included in the i386 kernels.
> > I have unblocked the kernel-wedge bug: #381584. Could you add the
> > modules there?
>
> Question is, to which udeb? ia64 has it in firmware-modules, if I add
> it to firmware-modules on i386 then it will be pulled into ram even on
> machines that don't load elilo-installer. Whether that's a problem
> depends on how elilo-installer will be loaded on i386 -- will it always
> get loaded anyway, or will it only be loaded conditionally? If it's
> loaded anyway then there's no harm in keeping it in firmware-modules,
> otherwise some space can be saved by moving it to efi-modules or such.

I would suggest a separate udeb. I expect that we can determine in 
hw-detect if we are installing on an Intel Mac and only in that case 
anna-install that udeb. This would be royally in time for bootloader 
installation which AIUI is the first time the info is actually needed.

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