Bug#825688: grub-efi-arm: refuses to install to an ext* device

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 09:02:13AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> What about actual UEFI firmware? I think in general that won't speak
> ext* or anything other than FAT.

This is probably true, but non-Mac UEFI firmware won't speak HFS+ either,
and that's gladly allowed, even on ARM. I would say that as long as there is
a legitimate usecase for it (and chainloading from U-Boot certainly is),
it should be allowed, although possibly with a warning (e.g. “Warning:
Installing on a non-FAT filesystem on /boot, not all UEFI installations will
support booting from this.”).

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