On 01/06/2011 05:11 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > IIRC, EFI provides filesystem IO support, so I was wondering: does > grub-efi use the EFI file IO calls, or does it still use its built in > partition and fs parsing modules, and only rely on EFI for the low level > disk block IO? > > GRUB uses own drivers. > It seems like you would want to build the grub fs modules as EFI drivers > to extent the entire EFI system if needed, and rely on EFI for file IO. > > It's not a goal of GRUB to extend a firmware. It's here to abstract from it and load the kernels. It's especially true for such poor-design firmwares as EFI > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > >
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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