Bug#550341: breaks efifb

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

Package: grub-efi
Version: 1.97-1
Severity: normal


I tried to select some suspect svn commits and build efi32 binaries for
them.

The earliest which built on amd64 is

Author: robertmh <robertmh at d0de0278-0dc1-4c01-8a07-af38b3205e46>
Date:   Sat Jun 20 14:11:45 2009 +0000

    2009-06-20  Robert Millan  <rmh.grub at aybabtu.com>
    
            * include/grub/i386/loader.h (grub_linux_prot_size)
            (grub_linux_tmp_addr, grub_linux_real_addr)
            (grub_linux_is_bzimage, grub_linux16_boot): Declare only on
            GRUB_MACHINE_PCBIOS.
            * util/i386/pc/grub-mkimage.c (compress_kernel): Move
            common grub_util_info() call to ...
            (generate_image): ... here.
            Fix use of uninitialized memory, comparison of signed with
            unsigned integers and memory leak.
            Remove bogus module address message.
    
    
    
    git-svn-id: svn://svn.sv.gnu.org/grub/trunk/grub2@2349
d0de0278-0dc1-4c01-8a07-af38b3205e46

and it already has the problem (no console is displayd with 2.6.26
kernel) so I did not test the later builds.

I guess I need an i386 build machine.

Thanks

Michal


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-rc3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-efi depends on:
ii  grub-efi-ia32                 1.97-1     GRand Unified Bootloader, version 

grub-efi recommends no packages.

grub-efi suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information