From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Grffm-0001NQ-ML for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:09:46 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Grffl-0001NL-5k for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:09:45 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Grffi-0001N2-Jo for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:09:43 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Grffi-0001Mx-Ey for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:09:42 -0500 Received: from [32.97.182.143] (helo=e3.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 1Grffi-0005iX-7N for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:09:42 -0500 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e3.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kB5J9Wvc009001 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:09:32 -0500 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id kB5J9ScX290218 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:09:31 -0500 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id kB5J9ShF010860 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:09:28 -0500 Received: from [9.53.41.42] (basalt.austin.ibm.com [9.53.41.42]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kB5J9S4O010642 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:09:28 -0500 From: Hollis Blanchard To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <873b7v2ycl.fsf@xs4all.nl> References: <1163545104.12931.49.camel@basalt> <200611250525.00823.okuji@enbug.org> <877ixa2rwd.fsf@xs4all.nl> <200612021827.31945.okuji@enbug.org> <873b7v2ycl.fsf@xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:09:11 -0600 Message-Id: <1165345752.11779.44.camel@basalt> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional 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: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:09:45 -0000 On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 21:35 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > "Yoshinori K. Okuji" writes: > > > On Saturday 02 December 2006 17:18, Marco Gerards wrote: > >> What is the problem with typing? I do not think this is really > >> complex? > > > > Weird. It was _you_ who pointed out that specifying tags would be > annoying on > > the IRC... > > I am all for something that is simple. Initially it looked like > Hollis' proposal was more complex, but IIRC he mentioned he wanted to > work on making this easier to use. Isn't this what he did? Or did I > misunderstand something? If someone (Hollis in this case) thinks I am > wrong and comes with a good argumentation, I am always willing to > change my opinion. I already illustrated how easy it is: MB_HEADER() MB_START_TAGS() MB_LOADADDR(0x1234) MB_ENTRYADDR(0x1234) MB_END_TAGS() Please explain if you think this it too difficult. Note: I refuse to believe that ORing flags into a .long is less complex. -Hollis