Package: grub-pc-bin Version: 1.99-27+deb7u2 Severity: wishlist User: [email protected] Usertags: toolchain User: [email protected] Usertags: kfreebsd X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]
Hi, grub-pc-bin is built on linux-any and kfreebsd-any. The produced GRUB image and modules should ideally be the same in each case. (Because GRUB is a kernel in its own right.) We already build the same set of modules, so that people can dual-boot linux and kfreebsd on the same machine. The most obvious difference is the ELF ABI number of the output files, something that will be ignored anyway: > $ file a/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/kernel.img > a/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/kernel.img: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, > version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped > $ file b/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/kernel.img > b/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/kernel.img: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, > version 1 (FreeBSD), statically linked, stripped On kfreebsd, we could fix it by post-processing with elfedit. I propose to do that during the package build. After that, this file is the same as generated by linux (for this particular GRUB build). Likewise for the *.mod files; 165 out of 192 of them were identical after this simple change. The motivation of this is to demonstrate integrity of the build, by very different systems, and check the reliability of their toolchains. Thanks, Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
