Bug#927269: grubarm.efi crashes

Colin Watson cjwatson at debian.org
Wed Apr 17 07:32:34 BST 2019


On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 08:04:57AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> Since this commit a51f953f4ee8 ("mkimage: Align efi sections on 4k
> boundary") grubarm.efi crashes.
> 
> Hence I suggest to revert this patch for when building packages
> grub-efi-arm*.
> 
> According to the author of the problematic patch without the patch Qcom
> ARM notebooks did not work. So we better do not revert it for aarch64
> until a final solution is found.

I'm not going to revert a patch when building for one architecture but
not for another.  I'm happy to apply follow-up patches if people with
access to the right hardware point me to suitable ones (and preferably
get them upstream first).

> The upstream report is here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2019-04/msg00075.html

Alexander, Leif, any comment here?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]



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