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From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:33:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200611152133.25173.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1163466980.1801.44.camel@basalt>

On Tuesday 14 November 2006 02:16, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> I've placed a generic multiboot.h directly into include/ (not in the
> grub subdirectory), since it it suitable for using in kernels
> independently of GRUB. As for the license, I believe that
> include/multiboot.h should NOT be GPL, to allow it to be used directly
> for non-GPL operating systems like the BSDs.

GRUB is entirely licensed under GPL. Please don't make an exception.

> Actually, we probably want to leave the old x86-only multiboot loader
> around to allow people to boot multiboot1 kernels... how should we name
> the two?

This is what I had in mind: one multiboot module should provide support for 
both. Multiboot Specification version 2 is (and must be) a superset of 
features found in version 0.x. So we should implement support version 2 
first, and "translate" Multiboot information if a kernel is for version 0.x.

Thanks,
Okuji



  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-15 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-14  1:16 [RFC] multiboot2 loader Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-15 20:33 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2006-11-15 21:10   ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-15 22:15     ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-15 22:48       ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-25  2:56         ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-26 10:18           ` Tomáš Ebenlendr
2006-11-26 16:35             ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-28  7:08             ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-28 10:59               ` Jeroen Dekkers
2006-11-28 11:25                 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-29 21:56                   ` Jeroen Dekkers
2006-11-26 22:50           ` Jeroen Dekkers
2006-11-28  7:11             ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-28 10:59               ` Jeroen Dekkers
2006-11-28 11:14                 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji

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