Re: multiboot on EFI

[phcoder <phcoder@gmail.com>]

You may also need my elf bugfix patch (was applied as rev 2037)
phcoder wrote:
> Try with 2030. Actually it's diffed against 2030+some of my posted and 
> unposted patches. If it still doesn't apply please report I'll update 
> and rediff it against HEAD.
> I'm interested in behaviour of this code on real EFI however doesn't 
> expect this version to be able to work completely.
> x86_64-efi isn't supported by this patch yet
> Also if xen uses any bios interrupts it will probably triple fault. On 
> IRC we discussed a possibility of loading seabios and it's probably 
> feasible but will take more time
> uzer cheg wrote:
>> Vladimir,
>>
>> First of all I'd like to say thank you for a quick feedback and 
>> development.
>>
>> I  tried to apply your patches and test it on my Apple Xserve Intel 32 
>> bit.
>> I've done following;
>>
>> # svn co svn://svn.sv.gnu.org/grub/trunk/grub2
>> # cd ./grub2
>> # patch -b -p1 < ./uppermem.diff
>> patching file conf/i386.rmk
>> patching file lib/i386/uppermem.c
>>  --- it's Ok
>>  --- Than
>> #  patch -b -p1 < ./efiboot.diff
>> patching file conf/common.rmk
>> Hunk #1 succeeded at 503 (offset -4 lines).
>> patching file conf/i386-coreboot.rmk
>> Hunk #1 succeeded at 99 with fuzz 2 (offset -3 lines).
>> Hunk #2 succeeded at 200 (offset -10 lines).
>> patching file conf/i386-efi.rmk
>> Hunk #1 FAILED at 80.
>> Hunk #2 FAILED at 103.
>> ...
>> etc.
>>
>>
>> I would like to ask you for what revision of grub2 this patches where 
>> done?
>> Do I have to checkout any specific branch of grub2?
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> 2009/3/23 phcoder <phcoder@gmail.com>:
>>> Hello. Here is an initial version of patch for booting multiboot 
>>> kernels on
>>> i386-efi. No Changelog yet because it's not for inclusion yet.
>>> -- 
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
>>>
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Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko