On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 19:39 +0100, Thomas Meyer wrote: > H. Peter Anvin schrieb: > > Thomas Meyer wrote: > >> H. Peter Anvin schrieb: > >>> Thomas Meyer wrote: > >>>> > >>>> I can not revert the commit > >>>> e429795c68d3001ecae74f6465420c9f043b0ece. it gave me errors. > >>>> but i'm also not sure what could be wrong with this commit! > >>>> > >>>> my first idea was that the commit > >>>> "[2215e69d2cf5024647f9a034807990590d25dd4e] x86 boot: use E820 > >>>> memory map on EFI 32 platform" is the offender, because the macbook > >>>> pro doesn't provide a e820 memory map at all. but bisect showed > >>>> that i'm wrong here?! > >>>> > >>> > >>> ELILO is expected to convert the memory map from EFI to e820 format. > >> I'm using elilo-3.6-ia32.efi provided at the elilo homepage. i > >> wasn't able to create a working efi toolchain :-( > >> Does elilo-3.6 already do the converting of the memory map, or not? > > > > Don't know. > 3.6 doesn't do the mapping in ia32/system.c create_boot_params(). > 3.8 does. > > The problem is, that i wasn't able to produce a working elilo.efi files > with my gentoo toolchain. the files elilo-3.8.efi provided by the elilo > project also doesn't work (gives a load error from the efi runtime). > > So i guess i'm stuck here. > > It should be noted somewhere that with Huangs patches, elilo version 3.8 > is needed. > The release notes with elilo3.7 beta (first integration of Intel EFI 2 patches) does cover this, as well as the toolchain changes required to build it. fyi
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