Hi, I'm continuing to work on Multiboot2 support on aarch64, and I'm looking at the alignment of the ELF headers which are passed through MB2.
The alignment of the MB2 header's isn't the problem, the problem is in the ELF headers which are linked through. Some of the 8 byte wide fields (specifically addr and size) in the ELF headers are not aligned on 8 byte boundaries, and instead can aligned on 4-byte boundaries. My question is, is it preferable to state that it is possible that the headers may be aligned on 4 byte boundaries (and manage that through reading two 4-byte chunks), or to change grub code to ensure that the ELF headers are aligned on 8 byte boundaries and state that 8 byte alignment is always the case? I think logically that it should be 8 byte aligned so that's my preference, but I thought I'd ask. Thanks, Chris _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
