linux-kernel - Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

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Date:	Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:24:12 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
Cc:	"Woodhouse, David" <david.woodhouse@...el.com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>,
	"ross.philipson@...rix.com" <ross.philipson@...rix.com>,
	"stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com" <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	"grub-devel@....org" <grub-devel@....org>,
	"Maliszewski, Richard L" <richard.l.maliszewski@...el.com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xen.org" <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	"boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com" <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"keir@....org" <keir@....org>
Subject: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

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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