Re: GRUB_MOD_GAP for non-ieee1275 ELF platforms

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Thursday 31 January 2008 13:47, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:38:01PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > On Thursday 31 January 2008 11:47, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > > It would be nice to have some linker trick to tell the code about the
> > > > prelinked modules.  That could make grub-mkimage a very thin wrapper
> > > > around "ld -r", perhaps written as a shell script.
> > >
> > > Sure it would.  Shouldn't be too hard, geninit.sh does half of what you
> > > want already.
> >
> > What does it mean? Do you want to use ld from grub-mkimage?
>
> No, not grub-mkimage.  We were talking about the possibility that a C file
> can be used as a module or linked in kernel.elf just by changing the
> makefiles, without need to modify the code itself (to get grub_foo_init()
> working).
>
> (Note that, ia64 patch just submitted uses ld in grub-install;  have a look
> if you're concerned about that)

Ah, ok. Understood. :)

Thanks,
Okuji