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Re: Grub for ia64


From: Johan Rydberg
Subject: Re: Grub for ia64
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:11:57 +0200
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Tristan Gingold <address@hidden> writes:

>> You're telling me that EFI on your IA-64 system does not relocate the
>> program before start executing it?  That sounds strange.
>
> It does relocate EFI PEI images.  Unfortunatly there is no tools to create
> EFI PEI objects on Linux.  The gnu efi tools are kludgy: they use standard
> gcc and ld, create an ELF image and convert it to a PEI image.  But the
> relocations are not converted, they are simply put into the data section.

How hard would it be to write a converter ourselves, starting with
util/i386/efi/grub-mkimage.c?  

~j

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