Re: Is: grub2-mkconfig detecting ELF files the multiboot2 header and using proper module. Was:Re: [PATCH 0/5] multiboot2: Enable EFI boot services usage in loaded images

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

On May 11, 2015 6:26 PM, "Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 06:55:05PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 06:59:23PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This patch series enable EFI boot services usage
> > > in loaded images by multiboot2 protocol.
> >
> > Guys, do you have any comments on this patch series?
> > Should I fix something? Could you apply them to GRUB2 tree?
>
> Hey,
>
> Follow up part of this is to make 20_linux_xen.in be able to detect
> whether Xen.gz can be loaded using multiboot2.
>
> I was thinking to piggy-back on the patches which dropped
> the check on CONFIG_XEN_DOM0 in the Linux kernel config file
> as (I think so) it was inspecting the ELF of the Linux kernel
> and determining if it has ".note.Xen" (see
> http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/4.3-testing/misc/dump-core-format.txt or
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/X86_Paravirtualised_Memory_Management#Start_Of_Day)
> and using some of that logic to inspect the Xen to find
> the MB2 header?
>
See grub-file tool. Possibly it's still only in next branch
> But I am having a hard time finding them? Vladimir do you remember
> where they might be?
>
> Thank you!