From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1GkRVm-0004az-4y for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:37:34 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GkRVj-0004Wy-UP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:37:31 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GkRVg-0004UK-6S for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:37:31 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkRVg-0004UF-1R for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:37:28 -0500 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GkRVg-0006ZG-Al for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:37:28 -0500 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6351C3CCA016E for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:22:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 104D73CCA0131 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:22:57 +0100 (CET) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:37:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <1163545104.12931.49.camel@basalt> In-Reply-To: <1163545104.12931.49.camel@basalt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611152137.27912.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.001835, version=0.17.2 Subject: Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional 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 20:37:32 -0000 On Tuesday 14 November 2006 23:58, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > I would like to make the in-kernel multiboot header optional. If it's an > ELF file, we can load it, even if it doesn't have the header. We can > also pass the address of the multiboot tags to its entry point (it can't > hurt anything). I prefer to keep a multiboot header, because GRUB may not detect an error that the offset of a multiboot header is beyond 8192 bytes. Okuji