From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964990AbaGPOp0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:45:26 -0400 Received: from duck.fensystems.co.uk ([212.13.204.60]:49382 "EHLO duck.fensystems.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933779AbaGPOpU (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:45:20 -0400 Message-ID: <53C68FFB.1090301@fensystems.co.uk> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:45:15 +0100 From: Michael Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Fleming , "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Yinghai Lu , Matt Fleming , Ingo Molnar , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ard Biesheuvel , Leif Lindholm Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, eboot: Support initrd loaded above 4G References: <1402773821-15995-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <20140618142819.GN24049@console-pimps.org> <20140709182651.GB15932@console-pimps.org> <20140711074029.GD5952@console-pimps.org> <20140715151025.GB32039@console-pimps.org> <53C54C62.8070403@zytor.com> <20140716143409.GC32039@console-pimps.org> In-Reply-To: <20140716143409.GC32039@console-pimps.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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