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Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen



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.
> > 



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