From: Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: multiboot2: remove "a.out kludge" requirement
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:13:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1164049987.32262.47.camel@basalt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061119165507.GA2854@saphi>
On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 17:55 +0100, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:26:54AM +0000, Brano Zarnovican wrote:
> > On 11/17/06, Andrei E. Warkentin <andrey.warkentin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >How about having a custom e_type for ELF images booted by GRUB? Something
> > >in
> >
> > Guys at Xen solved it nicely with custom ELF section. Somewhere in
> > your OS code you create a section with specific name, bootloader will
> > be looking for. For multiboot it might look like:
> >
> > .section __multiboot_v2
> > .long MAGIC_THIS
> > .long FLAGS_THAT
> >
> But using notes make it almost impossible to use a compressed image.
> (This is almost a requirement for ia64, but I also think ia64 does not
> require these flags).
I don't see how. GRUB must already extract .elf.gz files to read the ELF
header to load the executable.
-Hollis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-20 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-17 21:10 multiboot2: remove "a.out kludge" requirement Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-17 21:27 ` Andrei E. Warkentin
2006-11-17 22:01 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-17 22:36 ` Andrei E. Warkentin
2006-11-18 0:32 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-19 10:26 ` Brano Zarnovican
2006-11-19 16:55 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-11-19 19:31 ` Andrei E. Warkentin
2006-11-19 19:58 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-11-20 19:13 ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]
2006-11-20 20:24 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-11-20 19:14 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-25 3:01 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
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