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Re: IA64 port
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Robert Millan |
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Re: IA64 port |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:11:31 +0100 |
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 05:04:18PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> Quoting Robert Millan <address@hidden>:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 06:57:34AM +0100, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:46:50PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > > > Robert suggested some changes. I also noticed in the discussion that
> > > > you didn't follow common practise (like an existing grub-mkimage
> > > > implementation). Personally, as maintainer, I am against maintaining
> > > > two different approaches of the same problem. It costs us time to
> > > > maintain this and both case have separate bugs. So I rather see the
> > > > code shared, one way or the other. To safe time, it might save you
> > > > some work if you initiate a discussion about this.
> > >
> > > The facts:
> > >
> > > util/i386/efi/grub-mkimage.c and elf2pe.c do almost the same thing:
> > converting
> > > an ELF file to a PE file. But:
> > >
> > > * the input format is slightly different (Elf32 vs Elf64)
> > > * the output format is slightly different (PE vs PE+)
> > > * the relocating work is different (x86 vs ia64, Rel vs Rela)
> > > * The entry point is a descriptor on ia64
> > > * grub-mkimage.c can insert modules in a section.
> >
> > Sounds like they're very different. Maybe it'd be fine to just change
> > the name and user interface from elf2pe.c to util/ia64/efi/grub-mkimage.c ?
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Fine for me.
Will you send a new patch for this?
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