| Date | Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:54:38 -0400 | From | Peter Jones <> | Subject | Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen |
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 02:57:56PM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote: > Hi, > > During work on multiboot2 protocol support for Xen it was discovered > that memory map passed via relevant tag could not represent wide range > of memory types available on EFI platforms. Additionally, GRUB2 > implementation calls ExitBootServices() on them just before jumping > into loaded image. In this situation loaded system could not clearly > identify reserved memory regions, EFI runtime services regions and others.
I think you'll find that many distros are shipping patches to grub2 to add a "linuxefi" command that starts the kernel through its EFISTUB code. You may want to look in to that.
-- Peter
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