From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KIpKj-0001vy-Qe for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:33:05 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIpKi-0001vk-6t for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:33:04 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIpKf-0001vV-OU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:33:03 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54720 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIpKf-0001vS-Iy for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:33:01 -0400 Received: from mailout04.t-online.de ([194.25.134.18]:35169) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIpKf-0001EI-7x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:33:01 -0400 Received: from fwd35.aul.t-online.de by mailout04.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 1KIpKc-0002av-03; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:32:58 +0200 Received: from [10.3.2.2] (ESd+pgZYohpGvomgmVOJleoAlMuM7txvHEfEYQbZtLMPAZfmseDnAuCGMOlAOPIZW6@[217.235.248.243]) by fwd35.aul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1KIpKH-1AelCS0; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:32:37 +0200 Message-ID: <487CED3D.3050702@t-online.de> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:32:29 +0200 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <1216040584.9995.52.camel@dv> <487B84FC.7050700@t-online.de> <20080715134913.GB24537@thorin> In-Reply-To: <20080715134913.GB24537@thorin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: ESd+pgZYohpGvomgmVOJleoAlMuM7txvHEfEYQbZtLMPAZfmseDnAuCGMOlAOPIZW6 X-TOI-MSGID: c8de36ea-b420-4979-a2ad-cd74c639d5fa X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: Next release? 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: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:33:04 -0000 Robert Millan wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 06:55:24PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > >> The first (and last) grub package released in the Cygwin distribution >> was based on grub codebase from 2008-03-26. My latest reasonably tested >> merge is ~2 month old. If desired, I can merge & test all remaining >> changes to current HEAD and post the patches for review soon. >> > > Great! > > As for the loader issue, did you find a way to generate images in ELF format > from the Cygwin system? > > Yes of course - the Cygwin grub package compiles OOTB and works :-) objcopy is used to convert PE to ELF: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-11/msg00238.html Due to issues in BFD, objcopy produces ELF with invalid pc-relative relocation. This is compensated by a hack in the loader: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-11/msg00232.html Christian