Re: EFI patches rollup
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 04:46:36PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>Hi,
>
>and thanks!
>
>Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> (19/09/2012):
>> Here's an updated set of patches for d-i packages for EFI support on
>> x86. Mostly identical to previous versions, but ported forwards to
>> current head. Bigger changes:
>>
>> * I've tweaked partman-efi a little after swapping email with Colin
>> * I've dropped elilo patches, let's just go with grub-efi
>>
>> Please review and commit, or give me commit access so I can do it
>> myself! :-)
>>
>> After this, I'll make some tweaks to the d-i build scripts to make EFI
>> boot images at build time, using efi-image. At the moment I have this
>> in debian-cd for easier testing for me, but it really belongs in d-i
>> to get build-deps as needed. Then I'll merge my debian-cd EFI branch
>> onto trunk. Then we'll get EFI by default for x86 builds! \o/
>
>All committed and uploaded, except for grub-installer. There are some
>bits of logic for /proc handling, maybe that could be reused/united with
>the /sys and /proc you need? Maybe umount once you're done?
Could do, I guess... Any clues on where to look?
>Also, it looks to me like there's a missing grub-gfxpayload-lists in the
>dpkg -P call in the grub-pc case?
Probably better to just drop that mention altogether, it's an
Ubuntu-specific package AFAICS.
>I guess it would be nice to call for help testing the dailies once
>grub-installer is finally patched and uploaded? Catching any regressions
>before beta 3 freeze would be nice…
Definitely, yes!
>Christian, new template as mentioned in <20120822135919.GE497@einval.com>
>for partman-efi's debian/partman-efi.templates:
>
>+Template: partman-efi/too_small_efi
>+Type: error
>+# :sl5:
>+_Description: EFI partition too small
>+ EFI boot partitions on this architecture cannot be created with a size less
>+ than 35 MB. Please make the EFI boot partition larger.
I hope we won't need any more than this...
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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