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From: Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, eboot: Support initrd loaded above 4G
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:45:15 +0100
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On 16/07/14 15:34, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul, at 08:44:34AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Do we know what the Windows bootloader does?  I thought it did use the
>> EFI File Protocol?
>
> Good question. I'm not sure what the answer is, I'll try and find some
> time to take a look.

I'm in the middle of related work at the moment: trying to persuade UEFI 
WinPE to load its files from the virtual file system exposed by iPXE. 
I'll let you know what I find.

Michael