On Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 3:45 AM Jonathan Wiltshire <[email protected]> wrote: > > Control: tag -1 moreinfo d-i > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 01:42:11AM +0800, Han Gao wrote: > > [ Reason ] > > When `cmodel=large` is not used, GRUB2 uses R_RISCV_CALL/R_RISCV_CALL_PLT > > for jumps, which are limited to a ±2 GiB range，however, this is > > insufficient for (monolithic)grub.efi. > > The solution for GRUB is to use `mcmodel=large`. > > On RISC-V, GCC does not allow the simultaneous use of `-fPIE` > > and `-mcmodel=large`, issuing an error indicating that this > > combination is unimplemented. > > - cc1: sorry, unimplemented: code model ‘large’ with ‘-fPIC’ > > This causes `cmodel=large` to stop working if PIE is detected first. > > In addition to the bug described in 1140542, > > GRUB must also be prevented from generating `R_RISCV_ALIGN` relocations, > > as GRUB cannot ignore them. > > Do the grub2 maintainers know about and approve of this update? There seems > to be no response to Aurelien's question on #1140542.
I have tested both Forky and Trixie. Forky can boot, and Trixie can also boot using Forky's GRUB. > > Thanks, > > -- > Jonathan Wiltshire [email protected] > Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw > > 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51 > ed25519/0x196418AAEB74C8A1: CA619D65A72A7BADFC96D280196418AAEB74C8A1 >
