From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1E4R2C-0006lu-O2 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:32:52 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E4R2A-0006ko-GR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:32:50 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E4R28-0006kB-Rn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:32:50 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4R09-0005ie-58 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:30:45 -0400 Received: from [212.43.237.68] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E4R5U-0007ry-DA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:36:16 -0400 Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BBD4FF65C04 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:20:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=ip6-localhost) by ASSP-nospam ; 14 Aug 05 22:20:37 -0000 From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:19:29 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <42FF3097.7030904@nic.fi> <42FF75B0.8060805@gmail.com> <42FFBC3A.9010708@nic.fi> In-Reply-To: <42FFBC3A.9010708@nic.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508150019.30101.okuji@enbug.org> Subject: Re: vesafb terminal for testing. 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: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:32:50 -0000 On Sunday 14 August 2005 23:48, Vesa J=E4=E4skel=E4inen wrote: > As far I know, GRUB 2 doesn't support dynamic loading of function entry > points, instead there are only two predefined entry points that can be > called from modules so there has to be some interface for those if they > are not implemented in kernel level. And it would be bad to duplicate > that code in several places. Nope. GRUB 2 supports real dynamic loading. Entry points are used only when= we=20 want to allow symbols to be missing. So you need to implement code in the=20 kernel only if it requires real mode or it is a critical function. Okuji