John Paul Adrian Glaubitz,

Thank you for making me aware of this. I fixed it at 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2026-02/msg00094.html.

Thanks,
Sudhakar


> On 25 Feb 2026, at 12:17 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello Sudhakar,
> 
> On Mon, 2025-10-06 at 12:54 +0530, Sudhakar Kuppusamy wrote:
>> Enhancing the infrastructure to enable the Platform Keystore (PKS) feature,
>> which provides access to the SB_VERSION, db, and dbx secure boot variables
>> from PKS.
>> 
>> If PKS is enabled, it will read secure boot variables such as db and dbx
>> from PKS and extract EFI Signature List (ESL) from it. The ESLs would be
>> saved in the Platform Keystore buffer, and the appendedsig module would
>> read it later to extract the certificate's details from ESL.
>> 
>> In the following scenarios, static key management mode will be activated:
>> 1. When Secure Boot is enabled with static key management mode
>> 2. When SB_VERSION is unavailable but Secure Boot is enabled
>> 3. When PKS support is unavailable but Secure Boot is enabled
>> 
>> Note:-
>> 
>> SB_VERSION: Key Management Mode
>> 1 - Enable dynamic key management mode. Read the db and dbx variables from 
>> PKS,
>>     and use them for signature verification.
>> 0 - Enable static key management mode. Read keys from the GRUB ELF Note and
>>     use it for signature verification.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Sudhakar Kuppusamy <[email protected]>
>> Reviewed-by: Avnish Chouhan <[email protected]>
>> Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <[email protected]>
>> (...)
> 
> It seems that this particular change broke the grub-emu build on 32-bit 
> PowerPC.
> 
> Configuring the build with --with-platform=emu fails on 32-bit PowerPC with:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: appendedsig.module: in function `grub_mod_init':
> /home/glaubitz/grub/grub-core/commands/appendedsig/appendedsig.c:1615:(.text+0x2ab4):
>  undefined reference to `grub_pks_get_keystore'
> /usr/bin/ld: appendedsig.module: in function `create_dbs_from_pks':
> /home/glaubitz/grub/grub-core/commands/appendedsig/appendedsig.c:1400:(.text+0x2c3c):
>  undefined reference to `grub_pks_free_data'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> Building with --with-platform=ieee1275 succeeds, however.
> 
> Please see the full build log in [1].
> 
> I previously attributed this to be a bug in the Debian package as my first 
> test on the
> upstream code was just with --with-platform=ieee1275 but not with 
> --with-platform=emu,
> so that I couldn't reproduce the problem with the upstream git repository 
> code first [2].
> 
> However, it's confirmed now to be an upstream bug.
> 
> Could you have a look what could be the problem with grub-emu on 32-bit 
> PowerPC? I assume
> it's just missing an object file here on the linker command line or two 
> symbols that need
> to be excluded for grub-emu.
> 
> Thanks,
> Adrian
> 
>> [1] 
>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=grub2&arch=powerpc&ver=2.14-2&stamp=1770741231&raw=0
>> [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2026-02/msg00004.html
> 
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