Re: Using GRUB2 with CoreBoot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) 3/3: grub-mkimage should create streamable ELFs

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 06:02:10PM +0000, Patrick Georgi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> third installment in my mini-series - the fourth one vanished on the way.
> 
> Move segment table to the beginning of the ELF image, so it can be used 
> while parsing the rest.

I have two concerns before investing time in this:

  - I heard CoreBoot was deprecating ELF for size reasons.

  - On an earlier discussion (about boot issues on Apple hardware), Pavel
    proposed switching util/elf/grub-mkimage.c to use libbfd.  This would
    solve a few problems automaticaly, including this one.

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