audk/OvmfPkg/CompatImageLoaderDxe
Ard Biesheuvel d55cfdc51f OvmfPkg IA32: add support for loading X64 images
This is the UEFI counterpart to my Linux series which generalizes
mixed mode support into a feature that requires very little internal
knowledge about the architecture specifics of booting Linux on the
part of the bootloader or firmware.

Instead, we add a .compat PE/COFF header containing an array of
PE_COMPAT nodes containing <machine type, entrypoint> tuples that
describe alternate entrypoints into the image for different native
machine types, e.g., IA-32 in a 64-bit image so it can be booted
from IA-32 firmware.

This patch implements the PE/COFF emulator protocol to take this new
section into account, so that such images can simply be loaded via
LoadImage/StartImage, e.g., straight from the shell.

This feature is based on the EDK2 specific PE/COFF emulator protocol
that was introduced in commit 57df17fe26 ("MdeModulePkg/DxeCore:
invoke the emulator protocol for foreign images", 2019-04-14).

Ref: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2564
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
2020-03-04 09:26:45 +00:00
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CompatImageLoaderDxe.c OvmfPkg IA32: add support for loading X64 images 2020-03-04 09:26:45 +00:00
CompatImageLoaderDxe.inf OvmfPkg IA32: add support for loading X64 images 2020-03-04 09:26:45 +00:00