[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/6] efi_loader: Generate Microsoft PE format compliant images

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Tue Oct 16 15:40:01 UTC 2018



On 16.10.18 17:37, Bin Meng wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:36 PM Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02.10.18 16:39, Bin Meng wrote:
>>> Per Microsoft PE Format documentation [1], PointerToSymbolTable and
>>> NumberOfSymbols should be zero for an image in the COFF file header.
>>> Currently U-Boot is generating *.efi images (eg: helloworld.efi) in
>>> which these two members are not zero.
>>>
>>> This updates the build rules to tell linker to remove the symbol
>>> table completely so that we can generate compliant *.efi images.
>>>
>>> [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/zh-cn/windows/desktop/Debug/pe-format
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
>>
>> I couldn't find a cover letter for this series, so I'll just reply here
>> for the whole set:
>>
>> Which tree do you want to have this applied through?
>>
> 
> There is no cover letter for this series. In patchwork, this series is
> assigned to you so I assume this should go through the efi tree.

Ok, in that case, are you intending to send a follow-up patch for
riscv32 or do you want to do a v3?


Alex


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