Source: linux-2.6 Severity: wishlist It would be really useful for certain EFI machines if the Debian kernel on x86 and x86-64 was built with CONFIG_EFI_STUB enabled. This option makes the produced bzImage into a binary that can be directly started from EFI firmware without needing a Linux bootloader. It does not affect "normal" bzImage booting, so it should be okay for it to be enabled (it just costs a few kilobytes for the code).
This would make it much easier to boot Debian on EFI-only machines in certain cases, especially the installer, which currently requires me to compile my own EFI GRUB2 from source to get one that actually works correctly, as elilo doesn't work on the machine I have and only the HEAD of GRUB2 works. Booting the kernel directly from the firmware works with much less effort and makes it possible to load a d-i netboot image with just vmlinux and initrd.gz on a USB stick. Yes, I would specifically like this on both 32 and 64 bit x86, because one of the EFI machines I have is a rare non-Mac 32-bit EFI system :) -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
