From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JKYrJ-0003rr-4F for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:49:37 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKYrH-0003pt-2A for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:49:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKYrC-0003mi-Gb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:49:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKYrC-0003mX-9c for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:49:30 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKYrC-0006aM-AJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:49:30 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JKYr0-0006AC-5B for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:49:18 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JKYou-00042p-1r for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:47:08 +0100 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:47:08 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080131124708.GA15484@thorin> References: <20080128090910.GC13368@thorin> <1201733294.8103.67.camel@dv> <20080131104759.GA10889@thorin> <200801311238.01385.okuji@enbug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200801311238.01385.okuji@enbug.org> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: GRUB_MOD_GAP for non-ieee1275 ELF platforms X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:49:35 -0000 On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:38:01PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Thursday 31 January 2008 11:47, Robert Millan wrote: > > > It would be nice to have some linker trick to tell the code about the > > > prelinked modules. That could make grub-mkimage a very thin wrapper > > > around "ld -r", perhaps written as a shell script. > > > > Sure it would. Shouldn't be too hard, geninit.sh does half of what you > > want already. > > What does it mean? Do you want to use ld from grub-mkimage? No, not grub-mkimage. We were talking about the possibility that a C file can be used as a module or linked in kernel.elf just by changing the makefiles, without need to modify the code itself (to get grub_foo_init() working). (Note that, ia64 patch just submitted uses ld in grub-install; have a look if you're concerned about that) -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)