Bug#842617: Please also ship systemd-boot on arm64

[Alexander Kurtz]

On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 07:46 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> I know that arm64 EFI boot works (Canonical uses it in their internal
> OpenStack deployment), but as far as I know there is no existing
> armhf EFI implementation; so this would mean to ship dead bits. Or
> are you aware of any platform where this could actually be tested?

Well, as I mentioned there's u-boot which apparently provides an UEFI
implementation nowadays [0], so the armhf variant of [1] should
theoretically be usable for booting an unmodified Debian on a Raspberry
Pi 2 [2]. Additionally, OVMF is also available for ARM (without the 64)
[3], though this is currently not packaged in Debian, see [4].

Please note that I've not yet tested any of this, but I think it would
be great if at some point you could boot Debian using systemd-boot no
matter if you're on armhf, arm64, i386 or amd64 on both virtual and
physical hardware. That's certainly not going to be easy, but fixing
the Debian packaging of systemd seemed like the lowest hanging fruit!
;-)

Best regards

Alexander Kurtz

[0] https://media.ccc.de/v/946-uefi-grub2-on-raspberry-pi
[1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/u-boot-rpi
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi
[3] https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/edk2/
[4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842683
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