Changeset 4f464d8e

Timestamp:

08/28/2022 01:23:56 PM (20 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

6851ade

Parents:

fae75b7

git-author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (08/28/2022 01:18:42 PM)

git-committer:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (08/28/2022 01:23:56 PM)

Message:

efivar: mark it useless on 32-bit kernel

File:

• postlfs/filesystems/uefi-bootloaders/efivar.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

postlfs/filesystems/uefi-bootloaders/efivar.xml

@@ -74 +74 @@
       <listitem>
         <para>
-          Required patch (for 32-bit systems):
+          Optional patch (Required for 32-bit systems):
           <ulink url="&patch-root;/efivar-&efivar-version;-i686-1.patch"/>
         </para>
@@ -108 +108 @@
 <screen><userinput>sed '/sys\/mount\.h/d' -i src/util.h
 sed '/unistd\.h/a#include &lt;sys/mount.h&gt;' -i src/gpt.c src/linux.c</userinput></screen>
+
+    <note>
+      <para>
+        This package cannot function properly on a 32-bit system with a
+        64-bit UEFI implementation.  Don't install this package (or
+        efibootmgr) on 32-bit system unless you are absolutely sure you have
+        a 32-bit UEFI implementation, which is very rare in practice.
+      </para>
+    </note>
 
     <para>