Re: [PATCH] Kernel fixes for Cygwin

[Bean]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Christian Franke
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> due to the complexity of PE, a stand-alone converter may likely be
> larger than the ~680 LoC converter I already offered here. It was
> rejected, see this thread:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-11/msg00174.html
>

Hi,

I can't find the source code for your converter, perhaps you can repost it ?

IMO, it's better to use our own tool, if it's not very complicated. I
learn this lesson when writing efi support for x86_64. The gnu-efi
toolchain can produce efi image, but it turns out to have some
limitation on relocation, and it's hard to fix. I end up modifying
grub-mkimage to support converting elf to pe32+. Relying on external
tool means we are at the mercy of them, it's annoying when they have
issue, as we can't expect upstream to fix it soon.

-- 
Bean