Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 23:26 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: >> > I only said "I assume" because there is a subtle difference between a >> > "valid ELF file" and "indistinguishable for kernel.elf". It should be >> > valid and acceptable to the OpenFirmware, and the later is a black box >> > to me. >> >> Uhm.. I wonder what'd happen if you pre-link all the stuff into kernel.elf. > > I tried to prelink "apple" and "hfs" by changing the makefiles. The > functionality wasn't available. It makes sense, because the core > doesn't know that the modules are linked. The modules are never > registered with the core. > > It would be nice to have some linker trick to tell the code about the > prelinked modules. That could make grub-mkimage a very thin wrapper > around "ld -r", perhaps written as a shell script.
We have a trick for grub-emu, a list of init functions that have to be called is created, a function that does this is created and it is called when grub-emu is started. You could do this manually when testing. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
