On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:31:21AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > util/i386/efi/grub-mkimage.c already generates PE, right? Why a different > > way to handle this? Sound like it'd be more consistent to either use elf2pe > > on both or share the same grub-mkimage. What do you think? > > Having only one implementation is for sure a goal. But there are many > differences between the two implementations: > > * grub-mkimage can only handle PE and I386. > * grub-mkimage can put modules image in a section. > * elf2pe can generate PE and PE+ and read I386 or IA64 ELF. > > Enhancing grub-mkimage is not a small work as there are a lot of 32 bits > types. > And in any case we have to test the two implementations (doable). > > In my opinion, there is no need to hurry here. The both implementations work, > they do slightly different job, do not require maintainance and we can do > the merge later.
No objection from me. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
