From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: EFI disk IO
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:51:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D25F2FF.8090504@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D25E9A3.1070902@cfl.rr.com>
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On 01/06/2011 05:11 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> IIRC, EFI provides filesystem IO support, so I was wondering: does
> grub-efi use the EFI file IO calls, or does it still use its built in
> partition and fs parsing modules, and only rely on EFI for the low level
> disk block IO?
>
>
GRUB uses own drivers.
> It seems like you would want to build the grub fs modules as EFI drivers
> to extent the entire EFI system if needed, and rely on EFI for file IO.
>
>
It's not a goal of GRUB to extend a firmware. It's here to abstract from
it and load the kernels. It's especially true for such poor-design
firmwares as EFI
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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2011-01-06 16:11 EFI disk IO Phillip Susi
2011-01-06 16:51 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2011-01-06 16:51 ` Colin Watson
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