Re: [PATCH] [grub-installer] Drop workaround for Intel-based Macs

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi Arthur,

On Wed, 2025-04-30 at 07:10 +0300, Arthur Demchenkov wrote:
> It works fine now
> ---
>  debian/isinstallable | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/debian/isinstallable b/debian/isinstallable
> index af53d782..c869b7e4 100755
> --- a/debian/isinstallable
> +++ b/debian/isinstallable
> @@ -9,11 +9,6 @@ ARCH="$(archdetect)"
>  
>  case $ARCH in
>      i386/mac|amd64/mac)
> -	# Note: depends on partman-efi to load the efivars module!
> -	if [ -d /sys/firmware/efi ]; then
> -		log "GRUB not yet usable on Intel-based Macs booted using EFI"
> -		exit 1
> -	fi
>  	;;
>      mipsel/loongson-2f)
>  	;;

Thanks a lot for your patch! Could you elaborate on this a little more?

When was this particular issue fixed. Was this a fix in GRUB upstream?

I would prefer this to be better documented so we're clear whether there
might be setups where this workaround may still be required or not.

Thanks,
Adrian

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