Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754573Ab3JVQ2I (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:28:08 -0400 Received: from smtp02.citrix.com ([66.165.176.63]:7669 "EHLO SMTP02.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754096Ab3JVQ2H (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:28:07 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.93,549,1378857600"; d="scan'208";a="63440451" Message-ID: <1382459256.18283.35.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> Subject: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen From: Ian Campbell To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk CC: "Woodhouse, David" , Jan Beulich , "ross.philipson@citrix.com" , "stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com" , "grub-devel@gnu.org" , "Maliszewski, Richard L" , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , "boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com" , Daniel Kiper , "Peter Jones" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "keir@xen.org" Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:27:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20131022162412.GA19189@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <20131021185758.GD3626@debian70-amd64.local.net-space.pl> <1382433990.1657.66.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <5266620602000078000FCA48@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <1382435127.1657.70.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <526668A502000078000FCA7B@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <20131022134252.GA27302@phenom.dumpdata.com> <1382449985.18283.12.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <7gf8ufyngxh0extp8a0ifnrp.1382451526144@email.android.com> <20131022145724.GA18763@phenom.dumpdata.com> <1382455307.18283.30.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <20131022162412.GA19189@phenom.dumpdata.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4-4+b1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DLP: MIA2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1226 Lines: 35 On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 12:24 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > 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. Right, Matthew was just explaining this to me. :-( > > > AIUI all the distros are carry basically the same patch. > > I concur. > > > > Ian. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/