From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1GuFVu-00049Z-80 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:50:14 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GuFVs-00047X-Dt for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:50:12 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GuFVo-00041A-Gd for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:50:11 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GuFVo-00040f-4S for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:50:08 -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 1GuFVn-0000c2-He for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:50:07 -0500 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kBCLoWGL008899 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:50:32 -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 kBCLmm1M083860 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:48:48 -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 kBCLmmho020461 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:48:48 -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 kBCLmlYe020442 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:48:47 -0500 From: Hollis Blanchard To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <1165622551.23364.66.camel@basalt> References: <1161892715.17811.33.camel@basalt.austin.ibm.com> <20061027040907.GA2485@saphi> <1165622551.23364.66.camel@basalt> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:48:34 -0600 Message-Id: <1165960114.28426.23.camel@basalt> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: identifying module types 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, 12 Dec 2006 21:50:13 -0000 On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 18:02 -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > On the consumer side of multiboot (in this case Xen), we need to loop > over the tags, and when we find a module tag, how do we know which it > is? The Multiboot2 spec tells us "The order of modules is not > guaranteed." (Why not?) Of course, requiring that the order be preserved is the simplest solution, so unless there is a compelling reason to avoid that, I think we should avoid the UUID complexity. -Hollis