Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1]: profiles/use.desc: add efi global use flag

[David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, 1970-01-01 at 00:00 +0000, Andrew Ammerlaan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Currently we have 7 packages defining the efi flag and an additional 2
> defining the uefi flag. These flags do the same thing, add support for
> (U)EFI booting. I therefore propose we introduce efi as a new global 
> flag and later rename the uefi flag to efi in sys-apps/fwupd and 
> sys-apps/ipmicfg.
> 
> I don't have a strong preference between the efi or uefi flags, but 
> since a majority of the packages has chosen efi I suggest we go with
> that.
> 
> Best regards,
> Andrew
> 
> 
>  From 737eb5d8509b088f7689d417375c00773c131042 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> 2001
> From: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org>
> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 10:47:55 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 14/14] profiles/use.desc: add efi global use flag
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org>
> ---
>   profiles/use.desc | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/profiles/use.desc b/profiles/use.desc
> index df2115388949..ed600244f273 100644
> --- a/profiles/use.desc
> +++ b/profiles/use.desc
> @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ dvb - Add support for DVB (Digital Video
> Broadcasting)
>   dvd - Add support for DVDs
>   dvdr - Add support for DVD writer hardware (e.g. in xcdroast)
>   eds - Enable support for Evolution-Data-Server (EDS)
> +efi - Enable support the (Unified) Extensible Firmware Interface
>   elogind - Enable session tracking via sys-auth/elogind
>   emacs - Add support for GNU Emacs
>   emboss - Add support for the European Molecular Biology Open
> Software 
> Suite

Please switch to "uefi". UEFI is the forward going name and more aligned
with how it's used commonly. It's called the "UEFI forum" that writes
the UEFI spec and it's on uefi.org. A GPU needs a UEFI GOP to
initialise.