>>> 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. Jan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
