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Re: Arch triplet for uefi applications

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On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 03:19:10PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
>Bastien Roucariès wrote:
>> I am going to compile shell.efi from source.
>> 
>> I whish to install to something stable, but I need an arch triplet in order to 
>> put in a multiarch (like) location.
>> 
>> I suppose that it will be  x86_64-efi-none (or maybe x86_64-windows-efi  )  and 
>> i686-uefi-none ?

As Simon says, *definitely* not *windows* here please! :-)

>I don't think GRUB's x86_64-efi is an architecture triplet, just a
>GRUB-specific target.
>
>UEFI is effectively an "operating system", insofar as it provides a
>runtime environment with some baseline properties and a set of system
>calls. uefi definitely isn't a "vendor", and the OS shouldn't be "none"
>since there is an OS of sorts.
>
>For that reason, Rust uses the target names "aarch64-unknown-uefi",
>"i686-unknown-uefi", and "x86_64-unknown-uefi". Those seem like the
>right names for these targets in other toolchains, as well.

Nod, agreed. I think that makes sense.

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Arch triplet for uefi applications "Bastien Roucariès" <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-08-10 14:40 +0200
  Re: Arch triplet for uefi applications Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2021-08-11 00:20 +0200
    Re: Arch triplet for uefi applications Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2021-08-11 11:20 +0200
      Re: Arch triplet for uefi applications "Bastien Roucariès" <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-08-13 14:40 +0200
    Re: Arch triplet for uefi applications Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2021-08-11 16:10 +0200
      Re: Arch triplet for uefi applications "Bastien Roucariès" <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-08-12 12:00 +0200
        Re: Arch triplet for uefi applications "Bastien Roucariès" <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-08-12 12:20 +0200
          Re: Arch triplet for uefi applications "Bastien Roucariès" <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-08-12 14:10 +0200
  Re: Arch triplet for uefi applications Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2021-08-13 02:30 +0200
    Re: Arch triplet for uefi applications Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2021-08-13 11:00 +0200
    Re: Arch triplet for uefi applications "Bastien Roucariès" <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-08-13 11:20 +0200

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