On Friday 13 October 2006 10:02, bibo,mao wrote:
> On i386 objcopy in binutils can convert ELF format into PE32, but
> application need dynamically relocate itself so that PE32 image can be
> loaded to any place to execute. For grub-mkimage.c application need not
> because grub-mkimage will generat
Tristan Gingold wrote:
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 o
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
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.
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
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>Sent: 2006年10月12日 20:12
>To: The development of GRUB 2
>Subject: Re: Grub for ia64
>
>Tristan Gingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> You're telling me that EFI on your IA-64 system does not
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
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
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
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
.
Thanks
Bibo,mao
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>Rydberg
>Sent: 2006年10月11日 19:20
>To: The development of GRUB 2
>Subject: Re: Grub for ia64
>
>Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>
Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > Anyhow, when I get a few more minutes over I'll try to review your
>> > patches more in depth.
>>
>> A few comments;
>>
>> * Would it be possible for you to rewrite kern/ia64/efi/startup.S,
>>so that you hold the copyright for it?
>>
>> * Sam
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 08:15:26PM +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote:
> Johan Rydberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Anyhow, when I get a few more minutes over I'll try to review your
> > patches more in depth.
>
> A few comments;
>
> * Would it be possible for you to rewrite kern/ia64/efi/startu
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 08:15:26PM +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote:
> Johan Rydberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Anyhow, when I get a few more minutes over I'll try to review your
> > patches more in depth.
>
> A few comments;
>
> * Would it be possible for you to rewrite kern/ia64/efi/startu
Johan Rydberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyhow, when I get a few more minutes over I'll try to review your
> patches more in depth.
A few comments;
* Would it be possible for you to rewrite kern/ia64/efi/startup.S,
so that you hold the copyright for it?
* Same goes for kern/ia64/efi/
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 06:04 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Selon Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >
> > On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:31:10 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > > Quoting Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [...]
> > > > > >I assume IA64 is similar here, and given that, a
>
Selon Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:31:10 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > Quoting Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[...]
> > > > >I assume IA64 is similar here, and given that, a
> > > > > module_jump function implemented in assembly by each architecture
On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:31:10 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Quoting Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 08:59 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Quoting Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 15:45 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot
Quoting Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 08:59 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Quoting Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 15:45 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > >
> > > > if (grub_strcmp (name, "grub_mod_init") == 0
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 08:59 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 15:45 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > if (grub_strcmp (name, "grub_mod_init") == 0)
> > > mod->init = (void (*) (grub_dl_t)) sym
Quoting Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 15:45 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > if (grub_strcmp (name, "grub_mod_init") == 0)
> > mod->init = (void (*) (grub_dl_t)) sym->st_value;
> >
> > This won't work on ia64 AFAIK.
>
> Can't this proble
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 15:45 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> if (grub_strcmp (name, "grub_mod_init") == 0)
> mod->init = (void (*) (grub_dl_t)) sym->st_value;
>
> This won't work on ia64 AFAIK.
Can't this problem be solved with an architecture-specific macro?
FWIW, 64-b
Quoting Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >> Can you please explain why you want this in detail? I know there are
> >> issues with EFI to determine the prefix. My guess is that is why you
> >> want to change this.
> > Yes.
>
> Please elaborate.
The prefix is dete
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> Can you please explain why you want this in detail? I know there are
>> issues with EFI to determine the prefix. My guess is that is why you
>> want to change this.
> Yes.
Please elaborate.
>> But I am afraid this might not be a generic
>> solution so I hope we ca
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> It is not possible to find similar integer division code in glibc for
>> example? And why is this code needed at all, doesn't IA64 have
>> division?
> No, it doesn't have integer division.
>
>> If it doesn't, my gut feeling tells me that this should be
>> in libgcc.
Quoting Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> > this is a port of grub2 to ia64. ia64 systems (itanium) are EFI based so
> this
> > port reuse existing EFI infrastructure.
>
> This is truly great, thanks a lot for doing this! :-)
>
> First of all, the same com
Quoting Johan Rydberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > this is a port of grub2 to ia64. ia64 systems (itanium) are EFI
> > based so this port reuse existing EFI infrastructure.
>
> Thank you for offering this contribution.
You're welcome!
> First a few legal comments. I po
Johan Rydberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> First a few legal comments. I poked through the patches, and it seems
> that there are a few files that are copyrighted by Hewlett-Packard and
> David Mosberger-Tang. All developers of GNU GRUB has agreed to sign
> over their copyright to FSF, so brini
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
> this is a port of grub2 to ia64. ia64 systems (itanium) are EFI based so this
> port reuse existing EFI infrastructure.
This is truly great, thanks a lot for doing this! :-)
First of all, the same comment as for your other emails. Please use
diff -up and inline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> this is a port of grub2 to ia64. ia64 systems (itanium) are EFI
> based so this port reuse existing EFI infrastructure.
Thank you for offering this contribution.
First a few legal comments. I poked through the patches, and it seems
that there are a few files that ar
Quoting "bibo,mao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> It is great!!!, I will test on my IA64 box tommorrow. And I have few minor
> comments like this.
>whether kern/ia64/efi/init.c can be common for all architectures of efi
> platform, only grub_arch_sync_caches is different, this function can be
> placed
It is great!!!, I will test on my IA64 box tommorrow. And I have few minor
comments like this.
whether kern/ia64/efi/init.c can be common for all architectures of efi
platform, only grub_arch_sync_caches is different, this function can be placed
on arch specific place. Function find_mmap_size
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