From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org, "Dick Olsson" <hi@senzilla.io>,
"Vincent Stehlé" <vincent.stehle@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] boot/grub2: bump to version 2.16
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:40:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <atkSrg2TDcaqae1h@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261020195759.1091151-1-ju.o@free.fr>
On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 09:57:58PM +0200, Julien Olivain via buildroot wrote:
> For release notes, see [1] and [2].
>
> The grub2 project moved to gitlab. See [3] and [4].
> This commit updates GRUB2_SITE accordingly.
>
> The commit removes the package patches which are included in this
> release, and also adds an upstream patch to fix an issue on arm64
> platform.
>
> Tested by compiling and booting the defconfigs using grub2:
>
> qemu_aarch64_sbsa_defconfig
> qemu_arm_ebbr_defconfig
> qemu_loongarch64_virt_efi_defconfig
> qemu_riscv64_virt_efi_defconfig
> qemu_x86_64_efi_defconfig
> pc_x86_64_bios_defconfig
> pc_x86_64_efi_defconfig
>
> and running the runtime tests with:
>
> support/testing/run-tests \
> -d dl -o output_folder \
> tests.boot.test_grub \
> tests.fs.test_iso9660
>
> [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gnu-grub/grub/-/releases/grub-2.16
> [2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gnu-grub/grub/-/blob/grub-2.16/NEWS
> [3] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gnu-grub/grub/-/commit/754a3d867d015ffc242a7bb67fd6b88624667af9
> [4] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2026-03/msg00036.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
Series applied to master, thanks!
I'm impressed that we're now able to update grub with such a small
change, compared to how painful it was in the past.
Best regards,
Thomas Petazzoni
--
Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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2026-10-20 19:57 [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] boot/grub2: bump to version 2.16 Julien Olivain via buildroot
2026-10-20 19:57 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] boot/edk2: bump to version edk2-stable202608 Julien Olivain via buildroot
2026-10-21 19:40 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
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