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Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen
- To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
- From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:24:12 -0400
- Cc: "grub-devel@xxxxxxx" <grub-devel@xxxxxxx>, "keir@xxxxxxx" <keir@xxxxxxx>, "Woodhouse, David" <david.woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx>, "stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>, "linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "ross.philipson@xxxxxxxxxx" <ross.philipson@xxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>, "boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx" <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Maliszewski, Richard L" <richard.l.maliszewski@xxxxxxxxx>
- Delivery-date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:25:29 +0000
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On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 04:21:47PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 10:57 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > That 'that' is a standard PE/COFF image? Could you please point me
> > to the code that does that in GRUB2?
>
> As I said earlier in the thread, it's a patch which is being carried by
> all the distros. It is not in upstream grub.
>
> For instance here is Debian's version:
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/loggerhead/pkg-grub/trunk/grub/download/head:/linuxefi.patch-20130129060348-21bhrqmbqj52c28w-1/linuxefi.patch
>
That is the same patch that I see in Fedora's GRUB2.
That patch _only_ boots PE/COFF images with the Linux x86/boot
format. It won't boot standard PE/COFF images.
> AIUI all the distros are carry basically the same patch.
I concur.
>
> Ian.
>
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