From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Pat3n-0001PG-9G for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:51:35 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51619 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pat3k-0001Oh-6u for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:51:33 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pat3j-0007Df-1u for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:51:32 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:63921) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pat3i-0007DS-TO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:51:31 -0500 Received: by bwz16 with SMTP id 16so19155309bwz.0 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:51:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=B1Aa4eb4AP/7dxvtU2tL0B92B+Nnnb/b96QL+6wt2w0=; b=dcvjyz88wFd2Sctw0mNkfM1ChnOH6LthQcGeIG0yPj+4I797mhVutMR9MsJ1p2Vkj9 /w9xlQWPCfBL3rjjnRdvHfm9PSRY8jDdXS5ggvKLPj7gfSTQIsXgGZX5oaRKmeetAsmY W1Eu3BeE89EoVWiVrApdnIkxi1DzEAN74kRDc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=GD1Tes9oUHSkz2wFd/1yCRElgwIMyDTscg1I/lAVX98j+TeHiXST974MuoVSJIATBC sAHfSoppkSEiMiWeo7YmkuXWYV6erDjNmMamw8TlQ2CdJuZqfUFNjsI4sPVOEj7i9k9A Vo2425+PlcNThi/1Ns2eMe86nlr3eyXRVJ1zA= Received: by 10.204.74.74 with SMTP id t10mr1905848bkj.161.1294332689669; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:51:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (gprs21.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.21]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v1sm13670892bkt.17.2011.01.06.08.51.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:51:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D25F2FF.8090504@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:51:11 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101226 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <4D25E9A3.1070902@cfl.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <4D25E9A3.1070902@cfl.rr.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigF4FB533BC17A5093A1920EE8" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: EFI disk IO X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:51:34 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigF4FB533BC17A5093A1920EE8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 leve= l > disk block IO? > > =20 GRUB uses own drivers. > It seems like you would want to build the grub fs modules as EFI driver= s > to extent the entire EFI system if needed, and rely on EFI for file IO.= > > =20 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 > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > =20 --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enigF4FB533BC17A5093A1920EE8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk0l8v8ACgkQNak7dOguQgmG2wD+JQBAeoqk3BYXCio1mTxNSLEq ReEZvet4SmNG+RE3/0IA/3obbTltRmipb9fHt3pX+q2ubOBWlk5/SZW7PYhd+Nth =rVri -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigF4FB533BC17A5093A1920EE8--