Re: [PATCH] grub-install: Use `GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR` value as EFI boot option title

[Daniel Kiper]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 10:09:04AM +0000, Mate Kukri wrote:
> We are going to be shipping something like this in Ubuntu as we would
> like our boot entries to be called "Ubuntu" instead of "ubuntu".
>
> I wonder if other users of GRUB would find this naming approach
> better, I could gate this behind a command line option if the patch
> is easier to accept that way.
>
> A note here is that, the Windows platform efivar code should be fixed
> if this getting merged, but my first attempt to do so ended in
> frustration,
> because it definitely does not behave the same way as Unix, namely:
> - When looking for an entry to re-use, the name comparison is
> case-sensitive prefix match as opposed to a case-insensitive substring
> search.
> - The Windows code just searches for an entry to re-use, or an empty
> entry to fill, but unlike Unix, the existing entries with a matching
> name are not deleted.

I would be more than happy if you post this patch together with Windows
code fix. Could you do that?

Daniel