From: Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>
To: "isar-users@googlegroups.com" <isar-users@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Support for generating bootx64.efi when distro arch is i386
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 09:56:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210210085616.GU20742@yssyq.m.ilbers.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86fa58d19dba43d2950b99d6d25067a3@universal-robots.com>
Hello Daniel,
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 08:45:06PM +0000, Daniel Machon wrote:
> Would you consider a patch series that adds support for separating the DISTRO_ARCH from the generation of the grub image?
>
> We have a use case where target userland is i386, but firmware only supports loading of 64bit EFI executables.
> Currently the DISTRO_ARCH is also used to generate the grub image - if distro arch is i386, then grub image is bootia32.efi.
>
> We fixed this by introducing a new variable used (in bootimg-efi-isar.py) to separately decide the grub image.
IIRC, we've already had a similar use case (mixing i386 and amd64 userland), so
this one could be interesting as well. In any case, I'm looking forward to the
patches and discussion.
Why do you want to have i386 userland on amd64?
With kind regards,
Baurzhan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-10 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-09 20:45 Daniel Machon
2021-02-10 8:56 ` Baurzhan Ismagulov [this message]
2021-02-10 10:42 ` Henning Schild
2021-02-10 13:14 ` Daniel Machon
2021-02-10 14:23 ` Henning Schild
2021-02-17 10:41 ` Baurzhan Ismagulov
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