[arch-releng] Linux-3.3 now hits [core], enable or not EFI on ISOs?

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

----- Mensaje original -----
> De: Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be>
> Para: Arch Linux Release Engineering <arch-releng at archlinux.org>
> CC: 
> Enviado: martes, 10 de abril de 2012 13:27
> Asunto: Re: [arch-releng] Linux-3.3 now hits [core], enable or not EFI on ISOs?
> 
> On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:16:17 -0300
> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> 
>>  Hello
>> 
>>  I want to get a "yes" or "no" about pushing my EFI 
> patch [#1] in archiso 
>>  that enables EFI CD-ROM booting via "El Torito" method. At least 
> from 
>>  Thomas or Dieter, since I did not get feedback from other people than 
>>  Keshav P R (Thanks you).
>> 
>>  Just for remember this patch just increses the size of all x86_64 isos 
>>  in 20MiB.
>> 
>>  [#1] 
>> 
> https://github.com/djgera/archiso/commit/e3531ebd91b458c02dbfc5a2225a8c5397ce17e9
>> 
>>  Thanks.
>> 
> 
> Does it also increase size of the dual image?
> the dual image is currently 732MB, the others are <410MB

Yes as said before all thing where is x86_64 supported. So core-dual.iso and netinstall-dual.iso will be 20MiB increased. 
Optionally we can include this feature only on core-x86_64 and netinstall-x86_64, cutting EFI support from both dual.iso.

Anyway long time ago, we talk about iso sizes, and conclusion was: do not care anymore about CD-ROM, at least for dual ISOs.

> 
> It seems like a useful feature, but I don't really know what I'm talking 
> about.  I know very little about archiso and EFI.
> I mostly care about AIF and being able to install systems (including using EFI), 
> and it seems that to be able to do an EFI installation
> (which needs efibootmgr), the system needs to be booted with EFI (otherwise the 
> efi vars won't be set), that's all I know about this.
> 

efibootmgr will be included if this is added.

> Dieter
>