From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JlNWF-0006gJ-TA for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:10:43 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlNWE-0006ex-Fz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:10:42 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlNWC-0006ck-TI for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:10:42 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JlNWC-0006cb-PQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:10:40 -0400 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 1JlNMs-0006iQ-0w for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:01:02 -0400 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 1JlNMi-00018p-GH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:00:52 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JlNMO-0006Of-Gh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:00:32 +0200 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:00:32 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080414120032.GA24443@thorin> References: <1JhPUa-0XNW4m0@fwd35.aul.t-online.de> <20080413103939.GB19533@thorin> <48026C18.1090106@t-online.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <48026C18.1090106@t-online.de> 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: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin 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: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:10:42 -0000 On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:24:56PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > >I think that'd be much better than adding support for PE to GRUB (either > >native > >or via conversion layers). > > > > > > Yes. But this only better in theory, unless someone maintains such a > toolchain for the Cygwin distro. I don't think it'd be that bad. ELF is the standard in binary format nowadays, with only Microsoft going their own, awkward way (as usual). Alternatively, why don't you convert PE to ELF somewhere in util/ or so? See how the EFI port handles the reverse conversion (the ia64 patch adds more of this). -- 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 /.)