[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen
>>> On 22.10.13 at 11:26, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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