From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1VYel7-0002gZ-6N for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:24:41 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39029) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYekw-0002VB-U1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:24:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYeko-0005nf-0r for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:24:30 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:31010) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYekn-0005nU-RJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:24:21 -0400 Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r9MGOFGf000468 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:24:17 GMT Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r9MGOENi017754 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:24:15 GMT Received: from abhmt114.oracle.com (abhmt114.oracle.com [141.146.116.66]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r9MGOEag017745; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:24:14 GMT Received: from phenom.dumpdata.com (/50.195.21.189) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:24:14 -0700 Received: by phenom.dumpdata.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 779621C253F; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:24:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:24:12 -0400 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen Message-ID: <20131022162412.GA19189@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <20131021185758.GD3626@debian70-amd64.local.net-space.pl> <1382433990.1657.66.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <5266620602000078000FCA48@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <1382435127.1657.70.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <526668A502000078000FCA7B@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <20131022134252.GA27302@phenom.dumpdata.com> <1382449985.18283.12.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <7gf8ufyngxh0extp8a0ifnrp.1382451526144@email.android.com> <20131022145724.GA18763@phenom.dumpdata.com> <1382455307.18283.30.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1382455307.18283.30.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 Cc: "grub-devel@gnu.org" , "keir@xen.org" , "Woodhouse, David" , "stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com" , Daniel Kiper , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "ross.philipson@citrix.com" , Jan Beulich , "boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com" , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , "Maliszewski, Richard L" X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:24:39 -0000 On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 04:21:47PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 10:57 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > That 'that' is a standard PE/COFF image? Could you please point me > > to the code that does that in GRUB2? > > As I said earlier in the thread, it's a patch which is being carried by > all the distros. It is not in upstream grub. > > For instance here is Debian's version: > http://anonscm.debian.org/loggerhead/pkg-grub/trunk/grub/download/head:/linuxefi.patch-20130129060348-21bhrqmbqj52c28w-1/linuxefi.patch > That is the same patch that I see in Fedora's GRUB2. That patch _only_ boots PE/COFF images with the Linux x86/boot format. It won't boot standard PE/COFF images. > AIUI all the distros are carry basically the same patch. I concur. > > Ian. > From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754504Ab3JVQZR (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:25:17 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:42794 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753773Ab3JVQZP (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:25:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:24:12 -0400 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: Ian Campbell Cc: "Woodhouse, David" , Jan Beulich , "ross.philipson@citrix.com" , "stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com" , "grub-devel@gnu.org" , "Maliszewski, Richard L" , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , "boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com" , Daniel Kiper , Peter Jones , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "keir@xen.org" Subject: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen Message-ID: <20131022162412.GA19189@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <20131021185758.GD3626@debian70-amd64.local.net-space.pl> <1382433990.1657.66.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <5266620602000078000FCA48@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <1382435127.1657.70.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <526668A502000078000FCA7B@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <20131022134252.GA27302@phenom.dumpdata.com> <1382449985.18283.12.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <7gf8ufyngxh0extp8a0ifnrp.1382451526144@email.android.com> <20131022145724.GA18763@phenom.dumpdata.com> <1382455307.18283.30.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1382455307.18283.30.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 04:21:47PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 10:57 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > That 'that' is a standard PE/COFF image? Could you please point me > > to the code that does that in GRUB2? > > As I said earlier in the thread, it's a patch which is being carried by > all the distros. It is not in upstream grub. > > For instance here is Debian's version: > http://anonscm.debian.org/loggerhead/pkg-grub/trunk/grub/download/head:/linuxefi.patch-20130129060348-21bhrqmbqj52c28w-1/linuxefi.patch > That is the same patch that I see in Fedora's GRUB2. That patch _only_ boots PE/COFF images with the Linux x86/boot format. It won't boot standard PE/COFF images. > AIUI all the distros are carry basically the same patch. I concur. > > Ian. >