From: Tristan Gingold <tgingold@free.fr>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: multiboot2: remove "a.out kludge" requirement
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:58:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061119195842.GA2970@saphi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <016CAED8-2BCB-43EF-8A2E-7939D6CDA186@gmail.com>
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 01:31:17PM -0600, Andrei E. Warkentin wrote:
> Well, couldn't the compressed .text/.rdata be stored in an ELF
> section itself?
Do you have a more complex idea? :-)
For ia64, we don't have all the x86 issues: grub must just be able to load
an ELF file (as well as modules) and to start it with the correct parameters.
In fact this discussion is more or less x86 specific, isn't it ?
Tristan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-19 19:56 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 [this message]
2006-11-20 19:13 ` Hollis Blanchard
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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