19 Apr
2014
19 Apr
'14
4:04 p.m.
On Sat, 2014-04-19 at 02:05 +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
Ian Campbell wrote some neat patches for patching the (grub) kernel link addres at grub-install time, which would be an improvement, but is also quite invasive over several ports: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2013-12/msg00426.html
Even with this you still need some sort of distro mechanism for determining the grub load address for the platform at installation time, which is a pain.
Leif and I also poked at the possibility of a relocatable (i.e. PIC/PIE) grub image, but just couldn't get the compiler to produce anything halfway correct (not sure why, but it was getting into some of the dustier corners of gcc/ld options).
Ian.