On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:45:41AM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Friday 04 January 2008 21:37, Robert Millan wrote: > > > A quick look into util/elf/grub-mkimage.c finds "Don't bother preserving > > > the section headers". I don't even know if the problem is specifically > > > with the section headers or with something else. Perhaps > > > util/elf/grub-mkimage.c should be rewritten as a linker script, or maybe > > > it should use the BFD library that comes with binutils. I'm optimistic > > > about the linker script, since all we need is essentially linking. > > > > There's another [1] outstanding problem with elf/grub-mkimage.c: > > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-10/msg00056.html > > > > I think what you propose is a good idea. It sounds odd that we have to > > reimplement ELF handling when another GNU project already has. But I don't > > know how the GRUB maintainers think about it. > > > > [1] or, perhaps, it's the same problem? > > I object to using a linker, since it is more odd that the user must install > development tools to just install GRUB.
Distributors could push GNU ld from development binutils package to a separate one that is part of their base system. This happened already in Debian (and derivatives, gee) for gnupg and gpgv (since apt-get started using them for archive verification). > About BFD, the old discussion was that it made the binary size bloated, thus > didn't fit into a small disk or initrd or whatever, so it was not convenient > for installers. I don't know if the same discussion can apply nowadays, since > most people install operating systems by CD or DVD, memory size is plenty, > etc. I don't know about others, but Debian (and, yes, derivatives..) doesn't put grub-mkimage in the initrd. What is put is a script that will install standard GRUB package in the target chroot, and use that directly. I think using BFD is a good idea. > Especially if this is only for OpenFirmware platforms, I don't believe > that anybody cares. And LinuxBIOS ! And Xbox if we ever support it (I haven't managed to boot code in it yet, but it works with ELF). -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel