From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1GXzsd-0004Q2-4u for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:41:43 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GXzsa-0004Pf-Sf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:41:40 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GXzsY-0004P3-6M for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:41:40 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXzsY-0004Ow-2f for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:41:38 -0400 Received: from [195.54.107.73] (helo=mxfep02.bredband.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GY00l-0006Qk-MX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:50:08 -0400 Received: from ironport.bredband.com ([195.54.107.82] [195.54.107.82]) by mxfep02.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20061012124136.CTWW14002.mxfep02.bredband.com@ironport.bredband.com> for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:41:36 +0200 Received: from c-f8df71d5.029-19-73746f13.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([213.113.223.248]) by ironport.bredband.com with ESMTP; 12 Oct 2006 13:45:05 +0200 From: Johan Rydberg To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <3E68BD4534D7FC4995E20ECE949EA0C72DA674@pdsmsx412.ccr.corp.intel.com> <20061012082155.GB2551@saphi> <87ejtd7ovp.fsf@night.trouble.net> <20061012113519.GA2487@saphi> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:11:57 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20061012113519.GA2487@saphi> (Tristan Gingold's message of "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:35:19 +0200") Message-ID: <87ac417mya.fsf@night.trouble.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Subject: Re: Grub for ia64 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: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:41:41 -0000 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Tristan Gingold writes: >> You're telling me that EFI on your IA-64 system does not relocate the >> program before start executing it? That sounds strange. > > It does relocate EFI PEI images. Unfortunatly there is no tools to create > EFI PEI objects on Linux. The gnu efi tools are kludgy: they use standard > gcc and ld, create an ELF image and convert it to a PEI image. But the > relocations are not converted, they are simply put into the data section. How hard would it be to write a converter ourselves, starting with util/i386/efi/grub-mkimage.c?=20=20 ~j --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFLjEQ3CqIy3K3X2ERAsUzAJ4pSxgncihOCJx8pIt8fWyh7bHXsACcC/+/ i4OiJzJgMHuVTWRciCvTlKI= =sNxD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--