On 01.04.2025 15:08, Roger Pau Monne wrote: > The multiboot headers are not consumed in the PE binary, hence discard them > in the linker script when doing a PE build. > > That removes some relocations that otherwise appear due to the usage of the > start and __efi64_mb2_start symbols in the multiboot2 header. > > No functional change intended. > > Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> > --- > We could also place the multiboot header in it's own isolated section and > skip such section for relocations generation in mkreloc, but it seems best > to just remove the code if it's unused. I agree. I'd like to mention that I recall people intending to try to make xen.efi usable with an MB loader. Nothing ever came of that, so if anyone still wanted to pursue that route, they'd need to undo / redo what you're doing here. Jan
