Re: multiboot on EFI

[uzer cheg]

Dear Vladimir,
I tried rev 2030 and 2037.
And I also had few errors on patching stage.

I think it is a good idea to commit your code to head branch.
I will wait for it and try it asap.

Thank you.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:14 AM, phcoder <address@hidden> wrote:
> Try with 2030. Actually it's diffed against 2030+some of my posted and
> unposted patches. If it still doesn't apply please report I'll update and
> rediff it against HEAD.
> I'm interested in behaviour of this code on real EFI however doesn't expect
> this version to be able to work completely.
> x86_64-efi isn't supported by this patch yet
> Also if xen uses any bios interrupts it will probably triple fault. On IRC
> we discussed a possibility of loading seabios and it's probably feasible but
> will take more time
> uzer cheg wrote:
>>
>> Vladimir,
>>
>> First of all I'd like to say thank you for a quick feedback and
>> development.
>>
>> I  tried to apply your patches and test it on my Apple Xserve Intel 32
>> bit.
>> I've done following;
>>
>> # svn co svn://svn.sv.gnu.org/grub/trunk/grub2
>> # cd ./grub2
>> # patch -b -p1 < ./uppermem.diff
>> patching file conf/i386.rmk
>> patching file lib/i386/uppermem.c
>>  --- it's Ok
>>  --- Than
>> #  patch -b -p1 < ./efiboot.diff
>> patching file conf/common.rmk
>> Hunk #1 succeeded at 503 (offset -4 lines).
>> patching file conf/i386-coreboot.rmk
>> Hunk #1 succeeded at 99 with fuzz 2 (offset -3 lines).
>> Hunk #2 succeeded at 200 (offset -10 lines).
>> patching file conf/i386-efi.rmk
>> Hunk #1 FAILED at 80.
>> Hunk #2 FAILED at 103.
>> ...
>> etc.
>>
>>
>> I would like to ask you for what revision of grub2 this patches where
>> done?
>> Do I have to checkout any specific branch of grub2?
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> 2009/3/23 phcoder <address@hidden>:
>>>
>>> Hello. Here is an initial version of patch for booting multiboot kernels
>>> on
>>> i386-efi. No Changelog yet because it's not for inclusion yet.
>>> --
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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