Re: debian-efi mailing list

2014-12-12 Thread Leif Lindholm
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 07:00:34PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, I'm thinking it might be useful to set up a specific debian-efi mailing list to help as a central space for discussion about (U)EFI issues and support in Debian. This sounds very useful to me. There's been quite a

Can/should we have an efi/efi-any platform architecture?

2014-12-11 Thread Leif Lindholm
When working on UEFI kernel support, for both armhf and arm64, we came across packages (in several distributions) that were manually set to build for architectures where UEFI was available - and so would not be built for the ARM architectures. These are some obvious utilites such as: - efibootmgr

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Leif Lindholm
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:42:34PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: A couple of questions for people who know low-level things: * Of Debian's architectures (official and otherwise), which ones are known/defined/designed to be OK with unaligned accesses from user-space, and which ones (can be