GNU bug report logs - #55343
Add support for 32bit UEFI

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo <at> cyberdimension.org>

Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 23:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #55 received at 55343-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
To: Timothy Sample <samplet <at> ngyro.com>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>,
 Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>,
 Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo <at> cyberdimension.org>, 55343-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55343: Add support for 32bit UEFI
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 10:23:54 +0200

Hey,

>   This way we could get rid of the grub-efi32 package and rely only on
>   the grub-efi package. We would need to come up with something
>   similar for the aarch64-linux Grub package I guess.

I tried to do that, turns out Grub doesn't have support for building
modules for multiple architectures in a single pass. You need to call
configure and make for each architecture. Having a dedicated grub-efi32
doesn't seem so bad after all.

I pushed the patchset, thanks!

Mathieu
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