On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 10:41 +0100, Johan Rydberg wrote: > Joe Bonasera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Would the different tags i86-pc vs x86_64 (if any) be determined by > > knowing if which type elf gets loaded? > > My personal opinion is that we should not pass any information to the > kernel about what format it is provided in. > > If the image is an ELF64, it will be loaded as an ELF64. So in your > case, for x86_64 hosts, provide the kernel as an ELF64 image. For > IA-32, provide an ELF32 image.
I think he's referring to the "architecture-specific" tags (which are currently not fleshed out in the spec). There are different sections for x86 and x86-64, and it is a good question about when each is used. I'm really not sure what would be different about the two sets, but if there are differences, the ELF class seems like a reasonable way to decide which to use. -Hollis _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
