On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Pavel Roskin<pro...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hello, Marco! > > On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 16:27 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > >> There is another problem with this: the maintainance burden. People >> know ELF, we have ELF and people will know ELF in the future. >> Furthermore, as far as I am concerned, GNU/Linux is our main >> platform. I do not mind supporting windows or so and we can support >> it in a sane way, but changing our binary formats for it is one step >> too far for me... > > There is actually a maintenance burden that is caused by the need to > support the ELF format. We need to strip some sections from the modules > for GRUB to process them correctly. > What about SELF? (coreboot format) If it's sane I would prefer to share a format between these 2 projects. > Support for "secondary" platforms means that the build system should > recognize of compile tools to convert their native formats to ELF. It's > more complex than having one converter for all platforms that is > completely under our control. > > In addition to the problem on the core.img size, we have a problem of > the size of all the core plus modules. GRUB already barely fits the > boot partitions on PowerPC, and it won't fit if yaboot is to be > preserved. Soon it will push the limits of a 1.44Mb floppy (without any > kernels, mind you). And then there is an issue with writing GRUB on a > ROM. > > I'm not exactly enthusiastic about another major change when we need > stabilization, but the maintenance argument really doesn't apply here. > > -- > Regards, > Pavel Roskin > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
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