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Subject: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen
From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: "Woodhouse, David" <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
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On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 14:18 +0000, Woodhouse, David wrote:
> > I wonder why Linux can't make the EFI calls to fetch them itself?
> 
> It can. It does. It prefers to. This is what the "EFI boot stub" is all about.

Good, this is what I thought, glad to see I'm not talking out my behind
for once!

> Seriously, forget bootloaders (especially grub2) and make it a COFF/PE
> executable.  Then everything should just work, including Secure Boot
> etc.
> 
> And bootloaders can still load that, of course.

Ack!

Ian.

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