[Bug 1929059] Re: Maybe needs update for smbios handling

[Brian Murray]

** Also affects: grub2 (Ubuntu Impish)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: grub-gfxpayload-lists (Ubuntu Impish)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Tags removed: rls-ii-incoming

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Title:
  Maybe needs update for smbios handling

Status in grub-gfxpayload-lists package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in grub-gfxpayload-lists source package in Impish:
  New
Status in grub2 source package in Impish:
  New

Bug description:
  Currently this package generates /boot/grub/gfxblacklist.txt which is
  processed with hwmatch which is only available on grub-pc platform and
  not on the uefi platform.

  on uefi platform we instead have smbios command.

  Can we update grub-gfxpayload-lists & grub to generate something using
  smbios command instead? Or at the very least the calls to hwmatch
  should be guarded and done on grub pc platform only.

  Also do we still need this package? I am not too sure if the vendors
  in question are still relevant hardware.

  This also currently generates ugly messages during every boot of every
  ubuntu release stating that `hwmatch command is not available`.

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