Tested the patch applied to rev 1996 for grub.efi 64 bit and 32 bit, on Imac81 (4GB ram), MacBookPro41 (4GB and 2GB ram) MacBook21 (i386) with Macosx 10.4 10.5, ubuntu810. All good.
64bit Macs have other ongoing EFI problems with linux kernel initializtion and keyboard. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Bean <bean12...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > This patch contains several important update for x86_64 efi: > > 1, Support memory larger than 2G. > 2, Fix a bug in efi_call_6 that could cause chainloadering osx to fail. > 3, Improve the method to detect frame buffer address and line length > in linux loader. > > 2009-02-19 Bean <bean12...@gmail.com> > > * configure.ac: Check for -mcmodel=large in x86_64 target. > > * include/grub/efi/api.h (efi_call_10): New macro. > (efi_wrap_10): New function. > > * include/grub/efi/pe32.h (GRUB_PE32_REL_BASE_HIGH): New macro. > (GRUB_PE32_REL_BASED_HIGH): Likewise. > (GRUB_PE32_REL_BASED_LOW): Likewise. > (GRUB_PE32_REL_BASED_HIGHLOW): Likewise. > (GRUB_PE32_REL_BASED_HIGHADJ): Likewise. > (GRUB_PE32_REL_BASED_MIPS_JMPADDR): Likewise. > (GRUB_PE32_REL_BASED_SECTION): Likewise. > (GRUB_PE32_REL_BASED_REL): Likewise. > (GRUB_PE32_REL_BASED_IA64_IMM64): Likewise. > (GRUB_PE32_REL_BASED_DIR64): Likewise. > (GRUB_PE32_REL_BASED_HIGH3ADJ): Likewise. > > * kern/x86_64/dl.c (grub_arch_dl_relocate_symbols): Fixed relocation > issue. > > * kern/x86_64/efi/callwrap.S (efi_wrap_6): Bug fix. > (efi_wrap_10): New function. > > * kern/x86_64/efi/startup.S (codestart): Use relative addressing. > > * loader/efi/appleloader.c (devpath_5): Add support for late 2008 > MB/MBP model (NV chipset). > (devdata_devs): Add devpath_5 to the list. > > * load/i386/efi/linux.c (video_base): Remove variable. > (RGB_MASK): New macro. > (RGB_MAGIC): Likewise. > (LINE_MIN): Likewise. > (LINE_MAX): Likewise. > (FBTEST_STEP): Likewise. > (FBTEST_COUNT): Likewise. > (fb_list): New variable. > (grub_find_video_card): Remove function. > (find_framebuf): New function. > (grub_linux_setup_video): Use find_framebuf to get frame buffer and > line length. > > * util/i386/efi/grub-mkimage.c (grub_reloc_section): Fix relocation > problem for x86_64. > > -- > Bean > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > -- Cros (pxw)
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