Hello Pedro!

On Fri, 2023-08-11 at 00:11 +0000, Pedro Miguel Justo wrote:
> It seems as a recent change has caused a regression on Itanium (ia64), 
> rendering the platform unbootable. GRUB will crash very early with:
> 
> 
> ```
> Welcome to GRUB!
> 
> 7 0 0x00006B 0x000000000000001E unexpected trap
> 7 0 0x000066 0x000000000000001E trap taken, number in ext PE
> 7 0 0x00003C 0x0000000000005A00 trap taken, offset in ext PE
> ```
> 
> I have bisected the issue and it resulted into the following change:
> 
> ```
> 06edd40db76bb78457ac26156ed5f7b62381bbe8 is the first bad commit
> commit 06edd40db76bb78457ac26156ed5f7b62381bbe8
> Author: Oliver Steffen <ostef...@redhat.com>
> Date:   Fri May 26 13:35:43 2023 +0200
> 
>     guid: Unify GUID types
>     
>     There are 3 implementations of a GUID in GRUB. Replace them with
>     a common one, placed in types.h.
>     
>     It uses the "packed" flavor of the GUID structs, the alignment attribute
>     is dropped, since it is not required.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Oliver Steffen <ostef...@redhat.com>
>     Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
> ```

Thanks for bisecting this. Please always make sure to CC the original author of
the patch so he becomes aware of the breakage that was introduced by his patch.

Adrian

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