From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1GlAzh-0001qP-TL for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:11:29 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GlAzg-0001pQ-5P for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:11:28 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GlAzd-0001on-Q8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:11:26 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlAzd-0001oa-Dq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:11:25 -0500 Received: from [32.97.182.146] (helo=e6.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 1GlAzd-0001mJ-6D for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:11:25 -0500 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kAHLBe3P016951 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:11:43 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id kAHLAtdm187628 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:11:06 -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 kAHLAtZc007878 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:10:55 -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 kAHLAtZc007861 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:10:55 -0500 From: Hollis Blanchard To: The development of GRUB 2 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:10:45 -0600 Message-Id: <1163797845.20484.20.camel@basalt> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: multiboot2: remove "a.out kludge" requirement 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: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:11:28 -0000 One requirement listed for multiboot2 was that ELF headers should be ignored, because NetBSD was setting their ELF addresses incorrectly. This has now been fixed (see http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32865), so I've removed that requirement. ELF headers tell you where to load an executable far better than the kludge, so it really doesn't make sense to ignore ELF. -Hollis