Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:36:48PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> > 
> > Alternatively, why don't you convert PE to ELF somewhere in util/ or
> > so?  See how the EFI port handles the reverse conversion (the ia64
> > patch adds more of this).
> > 
> 
> I already have such a tool (based on objcopy with a small fix for
> PE->ELF added). See this thread:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-11/msg00174.html

I understand that it may be difficult to fix this in a way the binutils
maintainers will accept, but in your own words (from that thread), the
alternative of fixing it in GRUB is a workaround.

GRUB (and specially this part of GRUB) is very constrained in size.  A few
bytes can make the difference between safely embedding core.img in the post-MBR
area or jumping directly to a hard-coded offset in your filesystem.  I think
you should really try either fixing BFD or working around the problem somewhere
else (the runtime ELF loader seems like the worst of all the options to me).

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Robert Millan

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