Re: Grub for ia64

["bibo,mao" <bibo.mao@intel.com>]

It is great!!!, I will test on my IA64 box tommorrow. And I have few minor
comments like this. 
   whether kern/ia64/efi/init.c can be common for all architectures of efi
platform, only grub_arch_sync_caches is different, this function can be placed
on arch specific place. Function find_mmap_size can fit for all architectures.

    why write different grub_efi_allocate_pages/grub_efi_free_boot_pages, we can
modify these two functions to fit for all architecture EFI platform.

thanks
bibo,mao

tgingold@free.fr wrote:
> Hi
> 
> this is a port of grub2 to ia64.  ia64 systems (itanium) are EFI based so this
> port reuse existing EFI infrastructure.
> 
> I have made 4 patches:
> 
> efi64.diffs: fix a 64 bits issue of efi/api.h
> fat.diffs: fix 64bits issues and make filename match case insensitive.
> 
> [I think most 64 bits issues have already been reported recently and
> independently by the mail grub2 64bit system compatible]
> 
> ia64.diffs: ia64 specific files
> 
> modules.diffs:
> currently the ia64 port cannot load modules.  This patch makes slight changes
> so that grub can be completly prelinked without removing the dynamic loading
> feature.
> I think it is worth for three reasons:
> * it makes initial port easier.
> * the current common code can't work on ia64 (on ia64 a function pointer is a
> descriptor and not the address of the first function instruction).
> * grub-emu doesn't have dynamic modules and could reuse this work to remove
> most of #ifdef/#endif GRUB_UTIL
> 
> I have also written a few additionnal EFI specific commands I will post later.
> 
> Tristan.
> 
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