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RE: Grub for ia64
From: |
Mao, Bibo |
Subject: |
RE: Grub for ia64 |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:50:24 +0800 |
It is reasonable to write a converter porting from
util/i386/efi/grub-mkimage.c, I have one patch for x84_64, I am waiting for
approval for FSF license. IA64 should be much complicated because IA64
relocation type is hairy.
Thanks
Bibo,mao
>-----Original Message-----
>From: address@hidden
>[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Johan
>Rydberg
>Sent: 2006年10月12日 20:12
>To: The development of GRUB 2
>Subject: Re: Grub for ia64
>
>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
- RE: Grub for ia64, (continued)
- RE: Grub for ia64, Mao, Bibo, 2006/10/11
- Re: Grub for ia64, Tristan Gingold, 2006/10/12
- Re: Grub for ia64, Johan Rydberg, 2006/10/12
- Re: Grub for ia64, Tristan Gingold, 2006/10/12
- Re: Grub for ia64, Johan Rydberg, 2006/10/12
- Re: Grub for ia64, Tristan Gingold, 2006/10/12
- Re: Grub for ia64, Johan Rydberg, 2006/10/12
- Re: Grub for ia64, Tristan Gingold, 2006/10/13
- Re: Grub for ia64, bibo,mao, 2006/10/13
- Re: Grub for ia64, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2006/10/13
RE: Grub for ia64,
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