On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:11:57PM +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote: > Tristan Gingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> You're telling me that EFI on your IA-64 system does not relocate the > >> program before start executing it? That sounds strange. > > > > It does relocate EFI PEI images. Unfortunatly there is no tools to create > > EFI PEI objects on Linux. The gnu efi tools are kludgy: they use standard > > gcc and ld, create an ELF image and convert it to a PEI image. But the > > relocations are not converted, they are simply put into the data section. > > How hard would it be to write a converter ourselves, starting with > util/i386/efi/grub-mkimage.c? Not that hard, but * we'd better to have one grub-mkimage.c for all EFI targets * working on binutils is even better.
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