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I'm working on adding UEFI support for x86_64/amd64 builds in |
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catalyst. This is going to require some changes in catalyst itself |
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plus a new cdtar. Some of this is a bit of a gray area, as far as how |
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much to bundle prebuilt in the cdtar, versus generating @ runtime via |
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catalyst. |
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The UEFI-enabled isos will use grub2, we can provide a prebuilt one or |
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generate it @ runtime (of course depending on sys-boot/grub on the |
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host). If we build grub on demand, then the cdtar will basically just |
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add a couple of new dirs plus a grub-stub.cfg. |
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This is my current patch which assumes the cdtar will contain a |
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pregenerated grub image: |
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https://github.com/benkohler/catalyst/commit/c7e441d47bd9be60bca29a4d53dfbc82d73e7324 |
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Tool for generating the cdtar used above, is here: |
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https://github.com/benkohler/cdtar-grub2 |
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If anyone is interested in getting involved with or steering these |
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changes, please let me know. This catalyst change and cdtar should be |
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usable with current releng installcd specs, that's where I've been |
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testing. |
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You can also reach me @ iamben on Freenode IRC if you have questions/comments. |
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Thanks! |
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-Ben |