From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: some multiboot2 comments
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 21:53:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200611022053.12685.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1162258987.28437.13.camel@diesel>
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 02:43, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 21:15 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > On Saturday 28 October 2006 20:32, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > > Are you saying that given tag->key == foo, tag->length == sizeof(struct
> > > tag_foo)? I think it makes far more sense to allow 'length' to be
> > > independent of 'key', and that means we don't need this 'reserved'
> > > stuff.
> >
> > 'length' is sometimes somehow independent. When passing data whose size
> > is variable, 'length' specifies the size. The size of an item is
> > indirectly defined by 'length'. The size of an item can be different from
> > the size of data, because of a padding for an alignment.
>
> That definition doesn't take advantage of the flexibility 'length' could
> give us. We should be able to use arbitrary values for 'length', even
> when the tag structure size is well-defined. There is no reason not
> to...
Right.
Okuji
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-02 19:53 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 ` some multiboot2 comments Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-10-28 18:32 ` 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 [this message]
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