On 24/08/15 21:54, Daniel Kiper wrote: > >>>>> Currently, PE file contains many sections which are not "linear" (one >>>>> after another without any holes) or even do not have representation >>>>> in a file (e.g. BSS). In theory there is a chance that we could build >>>>> proper PE file using current build system. However, it means that >>>> What is "improper" about the currently built PE file? And if there is >>>> anything improper, did you inform the binutils maintainers of the >>>> problem? >>> From PE loader point of view everything is OK. However, current Xen PE >>> image (at least build on my machines) is not usable by multiboot (v1) >>> or multiboot2 protocol compatible loader because it is not linear (one >>> section does not live immediately after another without any voids). >> Again - either I'm missing something (and then your explanation is >> not good enough) or this is (as said above) a pointless adjustment. > Let's focus on multiboot2 protocol (multiboot (v1) is similar to multiboot2 > in discussed case). In general multiboot2 is able to load any file which has: > 1. proper multiboot2 header in first 32 KiB of a given file, > 2. "the text and data segments must be consecutive in the OS image" > (The Multiboot Specification version 1.6).
What is the reasoning for the restriction in 2. ? ~Andrew _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
