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Re: PATCH: Fix EFI support


On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi H.J.
>
>> The more I look at, the more I don't like the current solution.
>> If I understand it correctly, we added 2 EFI targets for
>> each arch just so that we can do
>>
>> # objcopy ?-O efi-XXX-x86_64 HelloWorld.elf HelloWorld.efi
>>
>> The only difference between 3 EFI targets is different
>> IMAGE_SUBSYSTEM_EFI_XXX. Why not just have one EFI
>> target, efi-x8_64, defaulting to IMAGE_SUBSYSTEM_EFI_APPLICATION??
>> We can add a switch to objcopy with
>>
>> --efi=app|bsdrv|rtdrv
>>
>> We can provide backward compatibility for efi-XXX-x86_64.
>> Any comments?
>
> This sounds a lot cleaner to me. ?Can you prepare a patch that implements
> this ?
>

Here is the patch. I also added some command line options for
objcopy, which are similar to PE linker.  OK for trunk?

Thanks.

-- 
H.J.
---
bfd/

2009-04-16  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>

	* coffcode.h (bfd_pei_p): New.

	* config.bfd: Remove bfd_efi_bsdrv_ia32_vec,
	bfd_efi_rtdrv_ia32_vec, bfd_efi_bsdrv_x86_64_vec,
	bfd_efi_rtdrv_x86_64_vec, bfd_efi_bsdrv_ia64_vec and
	bfd_efi_rtdrv_ia64_vec.  Replace bfd_efi_app_ia32_vec,
	bfd_efi_app_x86_64_vec and bfd_efi_app_ia64_vec with
	i386pei_vec, x86_64pei_vec and bfd_pei_ia64_vec, respectively.

	* configure.in: Remove bfd_efi_bsdrv_ia32_vec,
	bfd_efi_rtdrv_ia32_vec, bfd_efi_bsdrv_x86_64_vec,
	bfd_efi_rtdrv_x86_64_vec,
	bfd_efi_bsdrv_ia64_vec and bfd_efi_rtdrv_ia64_vec.  Replace
	bfd_efi_ia64_vec with bfd_pei_ia64_vec.
	* targets.c: Likewise.

	* configure: Regenerated.
	* libcoff.h: Likewise.
	* Makefile.in: Likewise.

	* efi-app-ia32.c: Removed.
	* efi-app-x86_64.c: Likewise.
	* efi-bsdrv-ia32.c: Likewise.
	* efi-bsdrv-ia64.c: Likewise.
	* efi-bsdrv-x86_64.c: Likewise.
	* efi-rtdrv-ia32.c: Likewise.
	* efi-rtdrv-ia64.c: Likewise.
	* efi-rtdrv-x86_64.c: Likewise.
	* efi-rtdrv-ia32.c: Likewise.

	* efi-app-ia64.c: Moved to ...
	* pei-ia64.c: This.
	(TARGET_SYM): Set to bfd_pei_ia64_vec.
	(TARGET_NAME): Set to pei-ia64.

	* libpei.h (bfd_target_pei_p): Removed.
	(bfd_target_pei_arch): Likewise.
	(bfd_target_efi_app_p): Likewise.
	(bfd_target_efi_app_arch): Likewise.
	(bfd_target_efi_bsdrv_p): Likewise.
	(bfd_target_efi_bsdrv_arch): Likewise.
	(bfd_target_efi_rtdrv_p): Likewise.
	(bfd_target_efi_rtdrv_arch): Likewise.
	(bfd_pe_executable_p): Likewise.

	* Makefile.am (BFD32_BACKENDS): Remove efi-app-ia32.lo,
	efi-bsdrv-ia32.lo and efi-rtdrv-ia32.lo.
	(BFD32_BACKENDS_CFILES): Remove efi-app-ia32.c, efi-bsdrv-ia32.c
	and efi-rtdrv-ia32.c.
	(BFD64_BACKENDS): Remove efi-app-ia64.lo, efi-bsdrv-ia64.lo,
	efi-rtdrv-ia64.lo, efi-app-x86_64.lo, efi-bsdrv-x86_64.lo and
	efi-rtdrv-x86_64.lo. Add pei-ia64.lo.
	(BFD64_BACKENDS_CFILES): Remove efi-app-ia64.c, efi-bsdrv-ia64.c,
	efi-rtdrv-ia64.c, efi-app-x86_64.c, efi-bsdrv-x86_64.c and
	efi-rtdrv-x86_64.c. Add pei-ia64.c.
	(efi-app-ia64.lo): Removed.
	(efi-bsdrv-ia32.lo): Likewise.
	(efi-rtdrv-ia32.lo): Likewise.
	(efi-app-ia64.lo): Likewise.
	(efi-bsdrv-ia64.lo): Likewise.
	(efi-rtdrv-ia64.lo): Likewise.
	(efi-app-x86_64.lo): Likewise.
	(efi-bsdrv-x86_64.lo): Likewise.
	(efi-rtdrv-x86_64.lo): Likewise.
	(pei-ia64.lo): New.

	* peicode.h (coff_swap_scnhdr_in): Replace bfd_pe_executable_p
	with bfd_pei_p.
	(arch_type): Removed.
	(pe_arch): Likewise.
	(pe_bfd_object_p): Just return coff_object_p.

	* peXXigen.c (_bfd_XXi_swap_scnhdr_out): Replace
	bfd_pe_executable_p with bfd_pei_p.

binutils/

2009-04-16  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>

	* objcopy.c: Include coff/i386.h and coff/pe.h.
	(pe_file_alignment): New.
	(pe_heap_commit): Likewise.
	(pe_heap_reserve): Likewise.
	(pe_image_base): Likewise.
	(pe_section_alignment): Likewise.
	(pe_stack_commit): Likewise.
	(pe_stack_reserve): Likewise.
	(pe_subsystem): Likewise.
	(pe_major_subsystem_version): Likewise.
	(pe_minor_subsystem_version): Likewise.
	(set_pe_subsystem): Likewise.
	(convert_efi_target): Likewise.
	(command_line_switch): Add OPTION_FILE_ALIGNMENT,
	OPTION_HEAP, OPTION_IMAGE_BASE, OPTION_SECTION_ALIGNMENT,
	OPTION_STACK and OPTION_SUBSYSTEM.
	(copy_options): Likewise.
	(copy_usage): Add --file-alignment, --heap, --image-base,
	--section-alignment, --stack and --subsystem.
	(copy_object): Set up PE parameters.
	(copy_main): Process Add OPTION_FILE_ALIGNMENT,
	OPTION_HEAP, OPTION_IMAGE_BASE, OPTION_SECTION_ALIGNMENT,
	OPTION_STACK and OPTION_SUBSYSTEM.   Convert EFI target to
	PEI target.

	* NEWS: Mention --file-alignment, --heap, --image-base,
	--section-alignment, --stack and --subsystem command line
	options for objcopy.

	* doc/binutils.texi: Document --file-alignment, --heap,
	--image-base, --section-alignment, --stack and --subsystem
	command line options for objcopy.

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