From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: multiboot2: variable data size
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 04:46:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200611250446.13574.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164425610.3827.20.camel@diesel>
On Saturday 25 November 2006 04:33, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> That's exactly the point: there will be no difference. Both
> architectures will use 64-bit types.
No. Both should use 32-bit, because GRUB transfers control in 32-bit mode.
Passing 64-bit addresses would be useless in this case. Note that the memory
map information is 64-bit even in the previous version of Multiboot Spec.
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-25 3:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <iss.8f960c3c.4ebf.45648480.44026.78@relay0i.sun.com>
2006-11-22 20:55 ` Grub-devel Digest, Vol 33, Issue 19 Joe Bonasera
2006-11-25 2:09 ` multiboot2: variable data size Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-25 3:10 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-25 3:33 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-25 3:46 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2006-11-25 4:08 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-25 4:36 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-25 5:01 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-28 9:29 ` Johan Rydberg
2006-11-28 11:35 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-28 12:46 ` bibo,mao
2006-11-28 23:29 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-29 1:55 ` bibo,mao
2006-11-29 2:37 ` Andrei E. Warkentin
2006-11-29 0:22 ` Johan Rydberg
2006-11-29 2:13 ` bibo,mao
2006-11-28 12:50 ` tgingold
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