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GRUB_MOD_GAP for non-ieee1275 ELF platforms


From: Robert Millan
Subject: GRUB_MOD_GAP for non-ieee1275 ELF platforms
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:30:28 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:09:10AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Also, I don't see how GRUB_MOD_GAP would not be defined to 0x8000 for
> > i386-ieee1275 platform considering that
> > include/grub/i386/ieee1275/kernel.h simply includes
> > include/grub/powerpc/ieee1275/kernel.h
> 
> Sounds strange.. I'm wondering that myself.  Will check..

Ah, right.  The problem is not on i386-ieee1275 but on i386-linuxbios,
which uses util/elf/grub-mkimage.c.

So, we define GRUB_MOD_GAP for every port that wants to use ELF ?  Or we
put the fallback only in grub-mkimage.c ?  I don't like either of the
solutions very much :-(

What do you suggest?

-- 
Robert Millan

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