Bug#922104: grub-install: check for arm-efi as a default target

[Steve McIntyre]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 02:29:14PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 02:49:34AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> I've already submitted the core of this upstream - see
>> 
>>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2019-02/msg00018.html
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> I'd push this as an MR, but my head is just not in the right place for
>> handling git-dpm right now :-(
>> 
>> Here's a patch instead, ready to drop into debian/patches. I've
>> extended the code here in similar fashion to what's already been added
>> in our version of grub_install_get_default_x86_platform() to check in
>> the pkglibdir. Otherwise this new code is just the same as I've sent
>> upstream yesterday.
>
>Thanks.  I'd prefer to have the upstream and pkglibdir parts as separate
>patches, though, since that'll make rebasing onto new upstream releases
>easier in future.
>
>I cherry-picked the upstream patch (though noting that the version of
>that isn't actually the same as the final version you posted to
>grub-devel, so you might want to chase that up with Daniel), and applied
>a separate patch on top of it to add the pkglibdir bits.

ACK, thanks. Have you tried pushing the pkglibdir patches upstream at
all?

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