[Devil-linux-develop] About attempts to boot using EFI

[Andrzej O. <an...@ma...>]

Dear Heiko,

I mentioned that I'll try to boot using EFI.

It seems that for the EFI boot (at least using Syslinux) we must wait a bit.

Although I was able to load the kernel using syslinux compiled on Arch Linux, 
but there are no way to compile git syslinux with efi on DL build environment.

Syslinux maintainers are from Intel. They use newest versions of compiler and 
glibc.

I tried to do an update of DL to gcc 4.7.2 and glibc 2.16, but there are a lot 
dependencies and patches. I came to keepalive and gave up. C11 changes are 
included in the gcc 4.7 and glibc 2.16 but in many applications have not yet.

It seems that the authors of the packages or maintainers must patch sources. 
And it probably will take about six months or longer.

I think you have a similar view.

Best Regards and Happy New Year.

Andrzej Odyniec