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Re: Arch triplet for uefi applications

From "Bastien Roucariès" <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.devel
Subject Re: Arch triplet for uefi applications
Date 2021-08-12 12:20 +0200
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Le jeudi 12 août 2021, 09:52:53 UTC Bastien Roucariès a écrit :
> Le mercredi 11 août 2021, 14:00:37 UTC Steve McIntyre a écrit :
> > 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.
> 
> Ok thanks
> 
> For the triplet this will be :
> -  i686-unknown-uefi
> - x86_64-unknown-uefi
> Where should I push this triplet ?
> 
> Ant therefore we get the multiarch tupple:
> - i386-uefi
> - amd64-uefi
> If I am right ?
> I have added to https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Tuples but I suppuse I
> should open a bug somewhere (dpkg ?)
I have changed the arch name, it will be:
uefi-i686
uefi-amd64
with multiarch tupple i686-uefi, x86_64-uefi

I think it is better in line with current kfreebsd pratice...

Bastien

> 
> Bastien
> 
> Bastien

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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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