Re: multiboot on EFI

[phcoder]

Hello. I have to write rights to svn. And even if I had I would never 
commit a code in such stage (not reviewed, tested only on qemu, still in 
developement)
However I'll rediff the code against HEAD when I'll have time

uzer cheg wrote:
> Dear Vladimir,
> I tried rev 2030 and 2037.
> And I also had few errors on patching stage.
>
> I think it is a good idea to commit your code to head branch.
> I will wait for it and try it asap.
>
> Thank you.
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:14 AM, phcoder <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Try with 2030. Actually it's diffed against 2030+some of my posted and
> > unposted patches. If it still doesn't apply please report I'll update and
> > rediff it against HEAD.
> > I'm interested in behaviour of this code on real EFI however doesn't expect
> > this version to be able to work completely.
> > x86_64-efi isn't supported by this patch yet
> > Also if xen uses any bios interrupts it will probably triple fault. On IRC
> > we discussed a possibility of loading seabios and it's probably feasible but
> > will take more time
> > uzer cheg wrote:
> > > Vladimir,
> > >
> > > First of all I'd like to say thank you for a quick feedback and
> > > development.
> > >
> > > I  tried to apply your patches and test it on my Apple Xserve Intel 32
> > > bit.
> > > I've done following;
> > >
> > > # svn co svn://svn.sv.gnu.org/grub/trunk/grub2
> > > # cd ./grub2
> > > # patch -b -p1 < ./uppermem.diff
> > > patching file conf/i386.rmk
> > > patching file lib/i386/uppermem.c
> > >  --- it's Ok
> > >  --- Than
> > > #  patch -b -p1 < ./efiboot.diff
> > > patching file conf/common.rmk
> > > Hunk #1 succeeded at 503 (offset -4 lines).
> > > patching file conf/i386-coreboot.rmk
> > > Hunk #1 succeeded at 99 with fuzz 2 (offset -3 lines).
> > > Hunk #2 succeeded at 200 (offset -10 lines).
> > > patching file conf/i386-efi.rmk
> > > Hunk #1 FAILED at 80.
> > > Hunk #2 FAILED at 103.
> > > ...
> > > etc.
> > >
> > >
> > > I would like to ask you for what revision of grub2 this patches where
> > > done?
> > > Do I have to checkout any specific branch of grub2?
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance.
> > >
> > > 2009/3/23 phcoder <address@hidden>:
> > > > Hello. Here is an initial version of patch for booting multiboot kernels
> > > > on
> > > > i386-efi. No Changelog yet because it's not for inclusion yet.
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
> > > >
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