>>> On 22.10.13 at 11:45, Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com> wrote: > 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?
The setup header I would assume (i.e. the bits surrounding the "HdrS" signature). But I'm only guessing anyway. 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/
