Bug#825110: yaboot vs grub: metadata_csum and 64bit ext4
Hi Milan,
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Milan Kupcevic <milan@debian.org> wrote:
> On 05/31/2016 04:35 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> Here is the short explanation on why I played with the `pending` tag.
>> ,
>> Switching from yaboot to grub for d-i is a great news. However I
>> feared two things, with the current applied patch for #825110 we are
>> currently restricting users solely for yaboot user
>
> This patch just allows yaboot to read files, it does not restrict grub
> in any way.
Sorry for the poor description. I meant to say 'It restrict the
filesystem with some specific options which otherwise would not have
been required for a pure grub installation'.
>> (I did not understand why the switch was done only for 'powerpc' and 'ppc64' was
>> skipped).
>
> Yaboot does not get installed on ppc64 nor on ppc64el.
I understand your point for ppc64el, but since `yaboot` gets build on
ppc64, some users may break their systems...
>> This would also need to be reverted once we fully move to grub only in d-i.
>
> There is a lot of stuff to do to get to that point.
point taken.
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