Re: [PATCH 2/9] Provide PE binary definitions

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Fri Jul 04 2014 - 15:16:44 EST


On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 10:12:51PM +0300, Anca Emanuel wrote:
> Wow MZ ? EXE for MSDOS and Windows ???
>
> After more research, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable
> [quote]PE is a modified version of the Unix COFF (Common Object File
> Format).[/quote]
>
> How can anyone be sure that Microsoft will not sue about this ?

We already build a kernel that's a valid PE executable for UEFI systems.

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