On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 10:31 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 22.10.13 at 11:26, Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com> wrote: > > AIUI "efilinux" is somewhat badly named and does not use the Linux Boot > > Protocol (i.e. the (b)zImage stuff with real mode entry point) either. > > It actually loads and executes the kernel binary as a PE/COFF executable > > (the native UEFI binary executable format). xen.efi is a PE/COFF binary > > too and could equally well be launched by linuxefi in this way. > > Except that unless I'm mistaken "linuxefi" still expects to find certain > Linux-specific internal data structures inside the PE image, which I > don't see us wanting to be emulating. That's the main difference to > "chainloader" afaict.
Ah, I'd been led to believe it was just the lack of a call to ExitBootServices, but I didn't check. What you say sounds completely plausible. Do you know what sort of Linux specific data structures are we talking about? Ian. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
