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Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen
From: |
Ian Campbell |
Subject: |
Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:23:44 +0100 |
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.
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, (continued)
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Jan Beulich, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Woodhouse, David, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen,
Ian Campbell <=
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Woodhouse, David, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Matthew Garrett, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Woodhouse, David, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Daniel Kiper, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Daniel Kiper, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/22