New package: limine-4.20230215.0

[mintsuki]

Testing the changes

• I tested the changes in this PR: YES

New package

• This new package conforms to the package requirements: YES

Local build testing

• I built this PR locally for my native architecture, (x86_64-glibc)
• I built this PR locally for these architectures (if supported. mark crossbuilds):
  • x86_64-musl
  • i686
  • i686-musl
  • aarch64
  • aarch64-musl

[mobinmob]

Thank you for (re)submiting a PR @mintsuki !
limine is an realy nice bootlader, it is ideal for live cds IMHO.

[mobinmob]

Just 2 suggestions:

• It may be a good thing to provide some documentation in the package. README.md, PROTOCOL.md and CONFIG.md can be installed with vdoc.
• Please provide a sample limine.cfg in the package. The one under test/ will be fine.

[Vaelatern]

This is attractive, though I personally have no use for it (being a heavy ZFS user)...

Do you have an idea as to if the cross built artifacts successfully boot a piece of hardware?

[mobinmob]

This is attractive, though I personally have no use for it (being a heavy ZFS user)...

I am planing to use limine with zfs in my main machine. Limine will act as an boot manager for uefi to load zfsbotmenu and as a chainloading bootloader.

I found 'limine.cfg' to be really straightforward. Barry Kauler, the creator of Puppy Linux and EasyOS has done work on a script that discovers any os on local disk and generates a proper configuration file, but have not studied it yet.

[mintsuki]

I wouldn't go as far as to chainload another bootloader for ZFS... that isn't really the point of Limine, but if you wanna use it in that fashion that's okay.

I would suggest reading the newly added PHILOSOPHY.md file in the root of the Limine repo for an idea behind the design and usage philosophy of the bootloader.

[mintsuki]

This is attractive, though I personally have no use for it (being a heavy ZFS user)...

Do you have an idea as to if the cross built artifacts successfully boot a piece of hardware?

I wouldn't be able to tell you for sure, but what I can tell you is that it is exceedingly rare (never witnessed) a successful Limine build (regardless of environment) misbehave, bar actual Limine bugs, of course.

[mobinmob]

I wouldn't go as far as to chainload another bootloader for ZFS... that isn't really the point of Limine, but if you wanna use it in that fashion that's okay.

Ι will use limine to load the zfsbootmenu efi executable. That enables me to have boot environments (with native encryption optionally ). I will also use limine to load other kernels from the ESP.
I am currently using refind but I find limine configuration more straightforward.
It is fantastic on a livecd - single configuration for uefi and bios and easy installation.

I would suggest reading the newly added PHILOSOPHY.md file in the root of the Limine repo for an idea behind the design and usage philosophy of the bootloader.

I have already read it. It is refreshing to see a project that has a well-defined scope 👌

[mintsuki]

@Vaelatern @classabbyamp
Is there anything wrong with the PR? Alternatively, is there an ETA for merge?

If Limine's notoriety is the issue blocking this PR, it may help to know it is packaged upstream for Alpine Linux, and it is the bootloader used to boot EasyOS (made by the Puppy Linux creator) which ranks 22nd on DistroWatch at the time of writing this.

[classabbyamp]

please take your rants elsewhere