Re: [PATCH 1/7] multiboot2: Add load type header and support for the PE binary type

2024-03-20 Thread Roger Pau Monné via Grub-devel
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 02:46:59PM +, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 1:18 PM Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 03:07:42PM +, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > > > Currently, multiboot2-compatible bootloaders can load ELF binaries and > > > a.out binaries. The pr

Re: [PATCH 1/7] multiboot2: Add load type header and support for the PE binary type

2024-03-19 Thread Ross Lagerwall via Grub-devel
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 1:18 PM Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 03:07:42PM +, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > > Currently, multiboot2-compatible bootloaders can load ELF binaries and > > a.out binaries. The presence of the address header tag determines > > how the bootloader tries t

Re: [PATCH 1/7] multiboot2: Add load type header and support for the PE binary type

2024-03-19 Thread Roger Pau Monné via Grub-devel
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 03:07:42PM +, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > Currently, multiboot2-compatible bootloaders can load ELF binaries and > a.out binaries. The presence of the address header tag determines > how the bootloader tries to interpret the binary (a.out if the address > tag is present else

Re: [PATCH 1/7] multiboot2: Add load type header and support for the PE binary type

2024-03-19 Thread Roger Pau Monné via Grub-devel
On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 02:24:31PM +, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM Jan Beulich wrote: > > > > On 14.03.2024 10:30, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 7:24 AM Jan Beulich wrote: > > >> > > >> On 13.03.2024 16:07, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > > >>> In addi

Re: [PATCH 1/7] multiboot2: Add load type header and support for the PE binary type

2024-03-14 Thread Jan Beulich via Grub-devel
On 14.03.2024 15:24, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 14.03.2024 10:30, Ross Lagerwall wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 7:24 AM Jan Beulich wrote: On 13.03.2024 16:07, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > In addition to the existing address and ELF lo

Re: [PATCH 1/7] multiboot2: Add load type header and support for the PE binary type

2024-03-14 Thread Ross Lagerwall via Grub-devel
On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM Jan Beulich wrote: > > On 14.03.2024 10:30, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 7:24 AM Jan Beulich wrote: > >> > >> On 13.03.2024 16:07, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > >>> In addition to the existing address and ELF load types, specify a new > >>> optional

Re: [PATCH 1/7] multiboot2: Add load type header and support for the PE binary type

2024-03-14 Thread Jan Beulich via Grub-devel
On 14.03.2024 10:30, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 7:24 AM Jan Beulich wrote: >> >> On 13.03.2024 16:07, Ross Lagerwall wrote: >>> In addition to the existing address and ELF load types, specify a new >>> optional PE binary load type. This new type is a useful addition since >>>

Re: [PATCH 1/7] multiboot2: Add load type header and support for the PE binary type

2024-03-14 Thread Ross Lagerwall via Grub-devel
On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 7:24 AM Jan Beulich wrote: > > On 13.03.2024 16:07, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > > In addition to the existing address and ELF load types, specify a new > > optional PE binary load type. This new type is a useful addition since > > PE binaries can be signed and verified (i.e. us

Re: [PATCH 1/7] multiboot2: Add load type header and support for the PE binary type

2024-03-14 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Please take this discussion to a separate thread. In this thread it's pure offtopic On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 10:25 AM Jan Beulich via Grub-devel wrote: > > On 13.03.2024 16:07, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > > In addition to the existing address and ELF load types, specify a new > > optional PE binary lo

Re: [PATCH 1/7] multiboot2: Add load type header and support for the PE binary type

2024-03-14 Thread Damien Zammit via Grub-devel
Hi, I saw this on the list and have concerns: Original Message On 14 Mar 2024, 6:24 pm, Jan Beulich via Grub-devel < grub-devel@gnu.org> wrote: On 13.03.2024 16:07, Ross Lagerwall wrote: >> In addition to the existing address and ELF load types, specify a new >> optional PE binar

Re: [PATCH 1/7] multiboot2: Add load type header and support for the PE binary type

2024-03-14 Thread Jan Beulich via Grub-devel
On 13.03.2024 16:07, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > In addition to the existing address and ELF load types, specify a new > optional PE binary load type. This new type is a useful addition since > PE binaries can be signed and verified (i.e. used with Secure Boot). And the consideration to have ELF signa