Hi, Bean <bean12...@gmail.com> writes:
> Why another format ? Here are some reason: > > The current object format is ELF. Most unix based os use ELF as native > object format, but there are minor difference, and gcc may add extra > segment which is of no use for grub. Mingw/cygwin uses PE, and we need > to convert it to ELF. Platform like OSX also requires special > treatment. All these make the build system complicated, so we might > just use an unified format specific to grub. > > The ELF format is designed to be compatible with many system, it's > neither compact nor easy to parse. If we invent a new format, we > should make it simple. There is another problem with this: the maintainance burden. People know ELF, we have ELF and people will know ELF in the future. Furthermore, as far as I am concerned, GNU/Linux is our main platform. I do not mind supporting windows or so and we can support it in a sane way, but changing our binary formats for it is one step too far for me... -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
