Some powerpc machines require not updating the NVRAM. This can be handled
by existing grub-install command-line options, but it's friendlier to detect
this automatically.
On chrp_ibm machines, use the nvram utility rather than nvsetenv. (This
is possibly suitable for other machines too, but that needs to be
verified.)
Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2014-10-15
Patch-Name: install-powerpc-machtypes.patch
It may be possible, particularly in recovery situations, to be booted
using EFI on x86 when only the i386-pc target is installed, or on ARM
when only the arm-uboot target is installed. There's nothing actually
stopping us installing i386-pc or arm-uboot from an EFI environment, and
it's better than returning a confusing error.
Author: Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2019-05-24
Patch-Name: install-efi-fallback.patch
Much like on x86, we can work out if the system is running on top of EFI
firmware. If so, return "arm-efi". If not, fall back to "arm-uboot" as
previously.
Split out the code to (maybe) load the efivar module and check for
/sys/firmware/efi into a common helper routine is_efi_system().
Signed-off-by: Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
This reverts commit 082fd84d52.
Incorrect version of the patch was pushed into the git repo.
Reported-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Much like on x86, we can work out if the system is running on top
of EFI firmware. If so, return "arm-efi". If not, fall back to
"arm-uboot" as previously.
Heavily inspired by the existing code for x86.
Signed-off-by: Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Some x86 systems might be capable of running a 64-bit Linux kernel but
only use a 32-bit EFI (e.g. Intel Bay Trail systems). It's useful for
grub-install to be able to recognise such systems, to set the default
x86 platform correctly.
To allow grub-install to know the size of the firmware rather than
just the size of the kernel, there is now an extra EFI sysfs file to
describe the underlying firmware. Read that if possible, otherwise
fall back to the kernel type as before.
Signed-off-by: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
the function of these files exceeds what can be sanely handled in shell
in posix-comaptible way. Also writing it in C extends the functionality
to non-UNIX-like OS and minimal environments.
