From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1GkS2F-0006FF-P7 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:11:07 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GkS2E-0006EW-51 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:11:06 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GkS2B-0006DO-E8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:11:05 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkS2B-0006DK-9f for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:11:03 -0500 Received: from [32.97.182.141] (helo=e1.ny.us.ibm.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GkS2B-0003ul-Eu for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:11:03 -0500 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e1.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kAFLAxaH026841 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:10:59 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id kAFLAsA4218686 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:10:59 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id kAFLAsmD025633 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:10:54 -0500 Received: from [9.53.41.42] (basalt.austin.ibm.com [9.53.41.42]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kAFLArZT025623 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:10:54 -0500 From: Hollis Blanchard To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <200611152133.25173.okuji@enbug.org> References: <1163466980.1801.44.camel@basalt> <200611152133.25173.okuji@enbug.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:10:49 -0600 Message-Id: <1163625049.8873.113.camel@basalt> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:11:06 -0000 On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 22:33 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Tuesday 14 November 2006 02:16, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > I've placed a generic multiboot.h directly into include/ (not in the > > grub subdirectory), since it it suitable for using in kernels > > independently of GRUB. As for the license, I believe that > > include/multiboot.h should NOT be GPL, to allow it to be used directly > > for non-GPL operating systems like the BSDs. > > GRUB is entirely licensed under GPL. Please don't make an exception. An exception is exactly what I am proposing. What is your objection? > > Actually, we probably want to leave the old x86-only multiboot loader > > around to allow people to boot multiboot1 kernels... how should we name > > the two? > > This is what I had in mind: one multiboot module should provide support for > both. Multiboot Specification version 2 is (and must be) a superset of > features found in version 0.x. So we should implement support version 2 > first, and "translate" Multiboot information if a kernel is for version 0.x. I'm not sure "translation" makes sense, but we can probably share a lot of the code. -Hollis