Re: Grub for ia64

2006-10-12 Thread Tristan Gingold
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:32:00PM +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote: > Tristan Gingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:11:57PM +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote: > >> Tristan Gingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> >> You're telling me that EFI on your IA-64 system does not

Re: Scripting (IMPORTANT!)

2006-10-12 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 15:41 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > I'm looking forwards to your ideas, questions, suggestions, criticism > and bug reports. :-) How hard do you think it will be to implement all these features (and handle the bugs)? I wonder if we wouldn't be better served by a simpler scri

Re: Grub for ia64

2006-10-12 Thread Johan Rydberg
Tristan Gingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:11:57PM +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote: >> Tristan Gingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> You're telling me that EFI on your IA-64 system does not relocate the >> >> program before start executing it? That sounds strange.

Re: Grub for ia64

2006-10-12 Thread Tristan Gingold
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:11:57PM +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote: > Tristan Gingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> You're telling me that EFI on your IA-64 system does not relocate the > >> program before start executing it? That sounds strange. > > > > It does relocate EFI PEI images. Unfortun

RE: Grub for ia64

2006-10-12 Thread Mao, Bibo
It is reasonable to write a converter porting from util/i386/efi/grub-mkimage.c, I have one patch for x84_64, I am waiting for approval for FSF license. IA64 should be much complicated because IA64 relocation type is hairy. Thanks Bibo,mao >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Grub for ia64

2006-10-12 Thread Johan Rydberg
Tristan Gingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You're telling me that EFI on your IA-64 system does not relocate the >> program before start executing it? That sounds strange. > > It does relocate EFI PEI images. Unfortunatly there is no tools to create > EFI PEI objects on Linux. The gnu efi t

Re: Grub for ia64

2006-10-12 Thread Tristan Gingold
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:30:18PM +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote: > Tristan Gingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > the code to relocate is used by grub to relocate itself. On EFI systems > > programs can be loaded at any address (physical mode). > > You're telling me that EFI on your IA-64 syste

Re: Grub for ia64

2006-10-12 Thread Johan Rydberg
Tristan Gingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the code to relocate is used by grub to relocate itself. On EFI systems > programs can be loaded at any address (physical mode). You're telling me that EFI on your IA-64 system does not relocate the program before start executing it? That sounds str

Re: Grub for ia64

2006-10-12 Thread Tristan Gingold
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 07:43:26PM +0800, Mao, Bibo wrote: > On IA64 module supporting is very complicated, I do not know whether > Grub2 can provide configuration file to compile command module with > both compile-in mode or module mode. > > If commands are compiled with compile-in mode, then th