Tristan Gingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:11:57PM +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote: >> Tristan Gingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
I agree. > * working on binutils is even better. The key problem with this as I see it is that it would force people to have a cross-compiler suite installed, at least for i386 hosts. Unless we can magically get the default installation to include PE-support. ~j
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