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From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Test GRUB2 compiled by MingW
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 13:24:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wtrlh167.fsf@student.han.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <424DD08C.1090704@gmail.com> (Hanzac Chen's message of "Sat, 02 Apr 2005 06:51:56 +0800")

Hanzac Chen <hanzac@gmail.com> writes:

> Yes, MingW generates COFF and if using COFF, the GCC/binutils can't use
> some of GAS's directive, like section switch. (I found GRUB using that
> in its module loading mechanism.)
>
> Maybe I still don't understand it well.
>
> How much else does GRUB 2 depend on ELF?

A lot.  The modules are all ELF files and the core image has an ELF
loader.  It would be the best if you could somehow produce ELF
executables.

Otherwise another module loader should be implemented for COFF.

Thanks,
Marco




  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-02 11:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-01  7:03 Test GRUB2 compiled by MingW Hanzac Chen
2005-04-01 16:49 ` Marco Gerards
2005-04-01 17:51   ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-04-01 22:51     ` Hanzac Chen
2005-04-02 11:24       ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2005-04-01 23:19   ` Hanzac Chen

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