From: phcoder <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Efiemu
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:13:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49AAFA97.7010504@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0f59980903011200t55589582iae817fc5e9c8f301@mail.gmail.com>
Bean wrote:
>
> First, I notice some novel use of macro. For example, use GRUB_EFI to
> wrap around efi calls, which expands to different prefix in different
> environment. I'm not a big fan of macro, and this seems a little
> weird.
It can't be done without at least some macros because it's able to load
64-bit efiemu from 32-bit mode and vice-versa. But GRUB_EFI can be
replaced to a set of grub_autoefi_* aliases
>
> Also, perhaps you should just avoid linux_efiemu altogether. The efi
> linux loader contains some tricks that mostly make sense in apple efi
> firmware, and it might cause hazard in bios environment. Besides, if
> it's just for testing purpose, linux is not a very good efi citizen,
> it doesn't even have a efi loader of its own.
>
I agree that for now this part of patch should probably be left out. At
least until we merge all i386/*/linux.c to i386/linux.c by using Vesa's
memory manager and video functions. However efiemu can help linux to get
decent efi support in future.
--
Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-01 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-28 16:17 Efiemu phcoder
2009-03-01 10:49 ` Efiemu phcoder
2009-03-01 20:00 ` Efiemu Bean
2009-03-01 21:13 ` phcoder [this message]
2009-03-20 19:32 ` Efiemu phcoder
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