From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1GkRRs-0005ON-3r for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:33:32 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GkRRo-0005KH-Um for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:33:29 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GkRRn-0005I4-24 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:33:28 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkRRm-0005Hp-SE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:33:26 -0500 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GkRRn-0005my-4S for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:33:27 -0500 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A0F3CCA016E for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:18:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7C93CCA0131 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:18:54 +0100 (CET) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:33:24 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <1163466980.1801.44.camel@basalt> In-Reply-To: <1163466980.1801.44.camel@basalt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611152133.25173.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.331029, version=0.17.2 Subject: Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader 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: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:33:29 -0000 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