From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: some multiboot2 comments
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:11:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610281611.01094.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1161892715.17811.33.camel@basalt.austin.ibm.com>
On Thursday 26 October 2006 21:58, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> Module:
> Because of the 'length' field in the tag header, the 'reserved' field
> isn't actually needed. The 'length' field makes every one of these tag
> structures inherently variably sized. Any data added later to this tag
> will be skipped over by the reader.
Only if you can specify tag size separately. In the current draft, the size of
a tag is defined by "length" which describes the real size of the content. So
if we don't include "reserved", there is no additional space for the future,
except for a possible padding.
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-28 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-26 19:58 some multiboot2 comments Hollis Blanchard
2006-10-27 4:09 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-10-27 5:37 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-10-28 14:06 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-10-29 16:38 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-10-30 19:20 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-10-30 20:24 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-11-02 19:52 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-04 14:40 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-12-09 0:02 ` identifying module types Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-09 5:31 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-12-12 20:56 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-12 22:54 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-12-13 4:14 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-16 5:09 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-12-16 5:04 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-12-12 21:48 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-16 5:06 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-12-12 22:28 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-12-13 0:07 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-13 20:47 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-10-28 14:11 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2006-10-28 18:32 ` some multiboot2 comments Hollis Blanchard
2006-10-30 19:15 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-10-31 1:43 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-02 19:53 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
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