Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v2 03/17] x86 UEFI: Copy code from GNU-EFI

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On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 5:46 AM Andrew Jones <drjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 03:12:08AM +0000, Zixuan Wang wrote:
> > +More details can be found in `GNU-EFI/README.gnuefi`, section "Building
> > +Relocatable Binaries".
> > +
> > +KVM-Unit-Tests follows a similar build process, but does not link with GNU-EFI
> > +library.
>
> So, for AArch64, I also want to drop the gnu-efi dependency of my original
> PoC. My second PoC, which I haven't finished, took things a bit further
> than this does, though. I was integrating a PE/COFF header and linker
> script changes directly into the kvm-unit-tests code rather than copying
> these files over.
>
> Thanks,
> drew
>

This approach sounds really interesting. Is there a public repo for
this new PoC?

I think the self-relocation code is the most important one in this
patch. If we can avoid or rewrite the self-relocation process, then we
can pretty much avoid copying GNU-EFI files.

Best regards,
Zixuan



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