[Linux-ia64] GNU-EFI-0.8 is available

[Linux-ia64] GNU-EFI-0.8 is available

[Stephane Eranian]

Hi,

I just made available from the HPLabs external ftp site a new version
of the gnu-efi package which allows you to develop EFI applications
using the GNU tools under Linux.

This package also contains the LILO for EFI/IA64 bootloader.

This new version updates LILO only. Some of the new features are:

        * created a documentation file (lilo.txt)
        * fixed a couple of memory leaks
        * code cleanups
        * created a separate directory for lilo
        * added support for the BOOT_IMAGE argument to kernel
        * default is to build natively now
        * rewrote getopt.c

In this package, I have included a binary for lilo called lilo.efi. 
There seems to be a problem with the current GNU toolchain where some 
binaries don't get recognized properly by EFI. I will try to track this 
down some more.

Let me know if you're having problems with this version.

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Re: [Linux-ia64] GNU-EFI-0.8 is available

[Andreas Schwab]

Stephane Eranian <eranian@cello.hpl.hp.com> writes:

|> I just made available from the HPLabs external ftp site a new version
|> of the gnu-efi package which allows you to develop EFI applications
|> using the GNU tools under Linux.

What is the copyright status of the package?  While it contains a few
files that licenced under the GPL, many are not.

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