Bug#919012: grub2: set arm64-efi code offset to EFI_PAGE_SIZE

[Leif Lindholm]

Package: grub2
Severity: wishlist

Some arm64 laptops/tablets ship with UEFI firmware that require the code
offset to be aligned to EFI_PAGE_SIZE, presumably in order to be able to
enforce no-execute settings for the PE/COFF header itself.

The following (minimal) patch set sent to grub-devel (and reviewed by me)
changes the behaviour accordingly:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2018-12/msg00056.html

The unfortunate behaviour of trying to run a grub without 4k-aligned code
offset is to silently hang immediately.

As a reference, a patch performing the same change in behaviour is already
merged in EDK2:
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/de3c440e8a54c201c527b85da7b89d58486ece4d
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