[PATCH V2] sparc64: fix OF path names for sun4v systems

2018-01-30 Thread Eric Snowberg
Fix the Open Firmware (OF) path property for sun4v SPARC systems. These platforms do not have a /sas/ within their path. Over time different OF addressing schemes have been supported. There is no generic addressing scheme that works across every HBA. Signed-off-by: Eric Snowberg --- V2: - Requ

[PATCH v2 1/2] build: Capitalise *freetype_* variables

2018-01-30 Thread Colin Watson
Using FREETYPE_CFLAGS and FREETYPE_LIBS is more in line with the naming scheme used by pkg-config macros. --- Makefile.am | 6 +++--- Makefile.util.def | 4 ++-- configure.ac | 24 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile.am b/

[PATCH v2 2/2] build: Use pkg-config to find FreeType

2018-01-30 Thread Colin Watson
pkg-config is apparently preferred over freetype-config these days (see the BUGS section of freetype-config(1)). pkg-config support was added to FreeType in version 2.1.5, which was released in 2003, so it should comfortably be available everywhere by now. We no longer need to explicitly substitu

Re: [PATCH] build: Use pkg-config to find Freetype

2018-01-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 06:35:11PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 12:23:58PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > @@ -1542,8 +1539,6 @@ else > > enable_grub_mkfont=no > > fi > > AC_SUBST([enable_grub_mkfont]) > > -AC_SUBST([freetype_cflags]) > > -AC_SUBST([freetype_libs]) > > Co

Re: A thread on grub-bug could need attention

2018-01-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Daniel Kiper wrote: > IIRC you see blank screen after installing some distros. Right? It also does not work when booting the ISO images which shall install the systems. E.g. debian-9.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso : mount debian-9.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso /mnt/iso mount /mnt/iso/boot/grub/efi.img /m

Re: A thread on grub-bug could need attention

2018-01-30 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 07:20:25PM +0100, Michel Bouissou wrote: > Hi again, > > Le 29/01/2018 ?? 16:29, Michel Bouissou a ??crit??: > > I created the USB stick per your instructions. I will try to give it a > > shot tonight on my son's machine. > > I tested the USB stick on my son's machine, and I

Re: [PATCH] Make grub-install check for errors from efibootmgr

2018-01-30 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 06:54:23PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Code is currently ignoring errors from efibootmgr, giving users > clearly bogus output like: > > Setting up grub-efi-amd64 (2.02~beta3-4) ... > Installing for x86_64-efi platform. > Could not delete variable:

Re: A thread on grub-bug could need attention

2018-01-30 Thread Michel Bouissou
Le 30/01/2018 à 17:33, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : >> I will try to test it tonight on the affected machine and let you know. > I am curious what will happen. It boots into grub properly. ॐ -- Michel Bouissou OpenPGP ID 0xEB04D09C ___ Grub-devel mailin

Re: A thread on grub-bug could need attention

2018-01-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, I wrote: > > Does this mean that the decisive trick is to use GPT with EFI partition > > instead of a MBR partition of type 0xEF ? Michel Bouissou wrote: > So might this machine boot only from GPT disks ? Well, then it would'tn > boot a Knoppix ISO image stick. But it does... Yes, i proposed

Re: A thread on grub-bug could need attention

2018-01-30 Thread Michel Bouissou
Hi there, Le 29/01/2018 à 19:53, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : > > Does this mean that the decisive trick is to use GPT with EFI partition > instead of a MBR partition of type 0xEF ? > > Or is there something missing in the FAT filesystem images of e.g. > Debian installation ISOs like > > https://cd