From: Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: multiboot2: kernel->GRUB communication
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:23:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163615007.8873.22.camel@basalt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1163579805.455ad19d75469@imp4-g19.free.fr>
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 09:36 +0100, tgingold@free.fr wrote:
> Quoting Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org>:
>
> > Right now the multiboot2 spec calls for bits to be set in the kernel
> > image to indicate to GRUB that various features are required or
> > requested.
> >
> > I'm trying to come up with a cleaner way. I find all these bits very
> > confusing, actually, and I think it would be more clear if we had
> > something like this instead:
> >
> > [... multiboot header ...]
> > .ascii "header_addr: 0xf00"
> > .ascii "load_addr: 0x0"
> > .ascii ...
> > (Actually, is it even worth supporting a.out at this point? This
> > particular example may be obsolete.)
> I am not a big fan of having ascii addresses because it is difficult to
> generate them from as and almost impossible from ld.
OK, good point.
-Hollis
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2006-11-14 22:13 multiboot2: kernel->GRUB communication Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-15 8:36 ` tgingold
2006-11-15 18:23 ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]
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