On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:32:00PM +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote: > 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. On my debian system, objdump -i: efi-app-ia32
It's already here! The binutils issue is mainly for ia64. For i386, grub-mkimage.c works. Tristan. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
