Bug#771905: unblock: grub2/2.02~beta2-17
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 11:39:14AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Please unblock package grub2
Seconded.
> - Enables the "linuxefi" command for i386. This enables the potential for
> secure boot on x86 platforms with a 32-bit UEFI implementation (this
> functionality is already present for 64-bit grub.efi).
>
> This last one is perhaps a bit controversial for an unblock request. The actual
> change amounts to adding/correcting some casts to grub_addr_t in the existing
> linuxefi code and enabling that module for the i386-efi build target. The
> changes are all within the linuxefi code and AIUI can only have any impact if
> the linuxefi command is explicitly used in the grub.cfg (which it is not by
> default), so the risk of regressions to existing usecases is IMO low.
linuxefi is also used implicitly if secure boot is enabled; but indeed I
expect this to have no effect on non-secure-boot setups, which are the
only ones that can be working in Debian right now.
The reason I added this for jessie is that there's still some
possibility that we might manage to get secure boot set up in time for
release, and 32-bit UEFI is increasingly a thing we have to care about
(as discussed with Steve McIntyre), so I wanted to make sure that this
detail didn't catch us by surprise further down the line.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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