Re: [PATCH] Kernel fixes for Cygwin

[Javier Martín]

El lun, 21-07-2008 a las 13:03 -0400, Pavel Roskin escribió:
> On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 18:50 +0200, Javier Martín wrote:
> 
> > Of course, another way to go could be to allow the bootloader part of
> > GRUB to be built in PE format: it would "just" be a matter of writing
> > the PE counterparts to kern/elf.c and abstracting kern/dl.c "a
> > bit" (i.e. a lot of work). The downside to this, apart from the
> > unspecified work required, is that Windows-built i386-pc-pe modules are
> > no longer compatible with Linux-built i386-pc-elf. Not a showstopper,
> > but might require a sober thinking. As I have a lot of free time right
> > now, I'll try to think whether it's possible or not.
> 
> I think it's important to have a consistent format for modules.
I thought that two hours ago, but now I find no advantage other than the
sharing of modules between similar computers.

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