Re: Grub for ia64

[Tristan Gingold]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:11:57PM +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote:
> 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?  
Not that hard, but
* we'd better to have one grub-mkimage.c for all EFI targets
* working on binutils is even better.

Tristan.