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

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Michael,

Michael Biebl [2018-11-17 15:47 +0100]:
> > 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?
> 
> Martin, do you still have concerns regarding enabling gnu-efi support
> for armhf?
> Personally I don't have any experience in that regard, all I can say is
> that we apparently ship
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/armhf/grub-efi-arm
> (with a popcon count of 0 :-o )

Not a strong veto, if that somehow makes the packaging simpler and more
consistent across architctures. I still don't quite like shipping dead bits
that can't actually run anywhere, but they are relatively harmless, too.

Martin
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