From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53595) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eL7CF-0004e9-FX for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 07:47:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eL7CA-0008GD-J9 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 07:47:07 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:60604) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eL7CA-0008G4-ET for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 07:47:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eL7C9-0006lL-VV for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 07:47:02 -0500 Subject: [bug#29409] [PATCH] system: vm: Do not add EFI partition on ARM system. Resent-Message-ID: References: <1511965226-12253-1-git-send-email-m.othacehe@gmail.com> <1511965226-12253-2-git-send-email-m.othacehe@gmail.com> <20171201211416.3977f6b1@scratchpost.org> From: Mathieu Othacehe In-reply-to: <20171201211416.3977f6b1@scratchpost.org> Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 13:46:13 +0100 Message-ID: <87indp1ene.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: 29409@debbugs.gnu.org > Be advised that there are ARM processors that do use EFI (some ARMv8 and aarch64 boards). I'm not opposed to this patch but in the future it might be better to have a flag specify whether to use UEFI. Ok. Then, when GuixSD will support ARMv8 and aarch64 boards, maybe we will have to add an "esp-partition?" flag to "qemu-image" procedure. Thanks for reviewing, Mathieu