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Re: Grub for ia64
From: |
Tristan Gingold |
Subject: |
Re: Grub for ia64 |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:14:34 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i |
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:11:57PM +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote:
> Tristan Gingold <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> You're telling me that EFI on your IA-64 system does not relocate the
> >> program before start executing it? That sounds strange.
> >
> > It does relocate EFI PEI images. Unfortunatly there is no tools to create
> > EFI PEI objects on Linux. The gnu efi tools are kludgy: they use standard
> > gcc and ld, create an ELF image and convert it to a PEI image. But the
> > relocations are not converted, they are simply put into the data section.
>
> How hard would it be to write a converter ourselves, starting with
> util/i386/efi/grub-mkimage.c?
Not that hard, but
* we'd better to have one grub-mkimage.c for all EFI targets
* working on binutils is even better.
Tristan.
- Re: Grub for ia64, Johan Rydberg, 2006/10/10
- RE: Grub for ia64, Mao, Bibo, 2006/10/11
- Re: Grub for ia64, Tristan Gingold, 2006/10/12
- Re: Grub for ia64, Johan Rydberg, 2006/10/12
- Re: Grub for ia64, Tristan Gingold, 2006/10/12
- Re: Grub for ia64, Johan Rydberg, 2006/10/12
- Re: Grub for ia64,
Tristan Gingold <=
- Re: Grub for ia64, Johan Rydberg, 2006/10/12
- Re: Grub for ia64, Tristan Gingold, 2006/10/13
- Re: Grub for ia64, bibo,mao, 2006/10/13
- Re: Grub for ia64, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2006/10/13
RE: Grub for ia64, Mao, Bibo, 2006/10/12