Re: multiboot on EFI

[phcoder <phcoder@gmail.com>]

Hello. I have to write rights to svn. And even if I had I would never 
commit a code in such stage (not reviewed, tested only on qemu, still in 
developement)
However I'll rediff the code against HEAD when I'll have time

uzer cheg wrote:
> Dear Vladimir,
> I tried rev 2030 and 2037.
> And I also had few errors on patching stage.
> 
> I think it is a good idea to commit your code to head branch.
> I will wait for it and try it asap.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:14 AM, phcoder <phcoder@gmail.com> 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.
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>>>> Regards
>>>> Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
>>>>
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