Re: [PATCH] Emulate the bios area in efi linux loader

2009-03-01 Thread Bean
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Bean wrote: > Hi, > > This is an update patch, it checks ACPI 1 & 2. Hi, I'm getting good test result from the ubuntu forum. With this patch, it's able to boot 2.6.26-28 686/amd64 linux kernel from 32-bit/64-bit firmware. Committed. -- Bean __

Re: [PATCH] Emulate the bios area in efi linux loader

2009-03-01 Thread Bean
Hi, This is an update patch, it checks ACPI 1 & 2. -- Bean efi_3.diff Description: Binary data ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] Emulate the bios area in efi linux loader

2009-02-27 Thread phcoder
This patch copy the ACPI information to conventional memory and emulated the extended bios data area. With this, linux can find information about ACPI even if efi information is not available, thus resolving the above problem. In my efiemu I have a code which does exactly the opposite. But addi

[PATCH] Emulate the bios area in efi linux loader

2009-02-27 Thread Bean
Hi, Linux needs to locate important data structure such as ACPI. In normal EFI booting, these information can be retrieved from efi system table, However, in case of cross booting, for example, booting 32-bit kernel from 64-bit firmware, or vice verse, the efi information is not usable, which lead