Re: EFI disk IO

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 01/06/2011 05:11 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> IIRC, EFI provides filesystem IO support, so I was wondering: does
> grub-efi use the EFI file IO calls, or does it still use its built in
> partition and fs parsing modules, and only rely on EFI for the low level
> disk block IO?
>
>   
GRUB uses own drivers.
> It seems like you would want to build the grub fs modules as EFI drivers
> to extent the entire EFI system if needed, and rely on EFI for file IO.
>
>   
It's not a goal of GRUB to extend a firmware. It's here to abstract from
it and load the kernels. It's especially true for such poor-design
firmwares as EFI
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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