On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 14:18 +0000, Woodhouse, David wrote: > > I wonder why Linux can't make the EFI calls to fetch them itself? > > It can. It does. It prefers to. This is what the "EFI boot stub" is all about.
Good, this is what I thought, glad to see I'm not talking out my behind for once! > Seriously, forget bootloaders (especially grub2) and make it a COFF/PE > executable. Then everything should just work, including Secure Boot > etc. > > And bootloaders can still load that, of course. Ack! Ian. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/