[bug #36770] grub-2.00: please support compression for EFI architectures

[Maxim Kammerer]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36770>

                 Summary: grub-2.00: please support compression for EFI
architectures
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: mkdesu
            Submitted on: Tue 03 Jul 2012 09:23:57 AM GMT
                Category: Installation
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: other
         Reproducibility: None
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Currently, there is no way to compress *-efi images.

"grub-mkimage --compression" is not supported (see
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424527).

memdisk compression is not supported -- compressing memdisk (and adding gzio
or xzio to modules list in grub-mkimage) results in "error: unknown
filesystem".

Individually compressing modules before adding them to memdisk results in 
"error: invalid arch independent ELF magic" for most (gzip) or all (xz -C
crc32) modules.

The above was tested mainly on x86_64-efi (TianoCore) with Gentoo's GRUB
2.00.

Thanks.




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