On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:14:42PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:33:48PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > > (OTOH, I'm pretty sure > > > that if a third party was to go to them with "Hey, I could use > > > efi-reader udeb on amd64", and provided a patch, they'd hopefully > > > include it even if they'd continue not to use efi-reader on amd64.) > > As (AFAIK) we've never even had a proper request to include efi-reader for > > amd64 since p-a-s was changed, let alone a discussion on what changes > > would be needed or a patch, I'm not going to hold my breath. But yes, it > > can of course be discussed. > So I've just filed a wishlist bug (#512348). > I don't own such hardware, and don't know enough about it. But I > know d-i already has partman-efi on i386/amd64. As far as I know > everything EFI related works and is supported on i386 and amd64, > except for efi-reader.
You wrote "If it's useful". Hits the nail, kind of. All, really all efi-reader does is reading some magic value out of the EFI tables and preseed the d-i language. Now, if you could tell me that there is /proc/efi/vars/Lang-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c present on x86 (according to the comment it's an id stolen from the ia64 arch-specific part of the kernel), fine. I don't think efi-reader is crucial on them. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Release Assistant `. `' xmpp:p...@0x539.de Stable Release Manager `- finger pkern/k...@db.debian.org
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