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From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: consolidate ELF header checks
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:26:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87brb4kror.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050201044708.GB3969@zulo.hadrons.org> (Guillem Jover's message of "Tue, 1 Feb 2005 05:47:08 +0100")

Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm working on the kFreeBSD loader and thus merging some common
> code to not have to duplicate it even more. This is the first patch
> from this serie.

That's really nice!  I am looking forward to your other patches.

> I've spoken with Marco about creating a new elf helper loader module
> so other loaders can share common functions. Maybe later we can add
> a.out or coff helper modules... Or maybe even move most of the
> functionality from dl to the elf module.

Yeah, I guess.  Let's see what is practical.

i don't think you can make a module of the code required by dl,
because dl is required to load it.  But it can be improved a lot at
least.

> This patch merges common ELF header checks. Please test this on PPC
> as I've only tested on x86.

I will test it.

> 2005-02-01  Guillem Jover  <guillem@hadrons.org>

The review of the patch will follow after I tested it.

Thanks,
Marco





  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-01 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-01  4:47 consolidate ELF header checks Guillem Jover
2005-02-01 19:26 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2005-02-04 22:25 ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-04 22:40   ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-02-05 14:10     ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-05 22:55       ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-02-05 22:45   ` Guillem Jover
2005-02-06 11:02     ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-06 12:58       ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-02-06 14:22         ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-06 21:28         ` Guillem Jover
2005-02-08 12:54           ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-02-09  7:10             ` Guillem Jover
2005-02-10 19:21               ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-02-11 17:25                 ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-11 18:07                   ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-02-11 18:24                     ` Marco Gerards

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