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Re: [PATCH] Adding Bi-Endian 32-bit and 64-bit Support to the Grub ELF P
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Andrey Borzenkov |
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Re: [PATCH] Adding Bi-Endian 32-bit and 64-bit Support to the Grub ELF Parser |
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Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:36:22 +0400 |
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Tomohiro B Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> After some testing, it seems that Grub is able to boot the kernel just fine
> with an initrd with only these changes. The initrd is loaded into memory
> while still in BE mode and it looks like the jump is handled in the
> firmware, so the address and size still have to be in big endian mode (and
> in fact byte swapping them on the grub side breaks the boot process). So it
> looks like the initrd will not be a problem in this case.
>
it would still be good to explicitly restrict it to platforms known to
support it.