Re: GRUB_MOD_GAP for non-ieee1275 ELF platforms

[Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>]

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 09:38 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:44:51AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> >> > What do you suggest?
> >> 
> >> I would prefer to have GRUB_MOD_GAP is all headers.  Once it's not
> >> needed, it could be removed across the board.
> >
> > Ok, does this seem fine?
> 
> Am I missing something, or didn't you explain what GRUB_MOD_GAP is
> supposed to do...?  To be honest, I do not know what it is about.

If it's not there, PowerMac OpenFirmware would not load the grub image
made by grub-mkimage.  Instead, it will report "CLAIM failed".

The modules use to be loaded at 3 Mb.  Then they were moved directly
after the core (kernel.elf), which created the problem.  Search for the
shortest gap that doesn't result in "CLAIM failed" indicated that it's
0x8000 (32k).  I tried adding more code to kernel.elf, and the gap of
32k was still sufficient.

I assume that if the result of grub-mkimage is a valid ELF file, like
kernel.elf, "CLAIM failed" would not happen.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin