From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 21:04:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200612052104.58254.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1165345752.11779.44.camel@basalt>
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 20:09, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > I am all for something that is simple. Initially it looked like
> > Hollis' proposal was more complex, but IIRC he mentioned he wanted to
> > work on making this easier to use. Isn't this what he did? Or did I
> > misunderstand something? If someone (Hollis in this case) thinks I am
> > wrong and comes with a good argumentation, I am always willing to
> > change my opinion.
>
> I already illustrated how easy it is:
> MB_HEADER()
> MB_START_TAGS()
> MB_LOADADDR(0x1234)
> MB_ENTRYADDR(0x1234)
> MB_END_TAGS()
>
> Please explain if you think this it too difficult.
I have already said why this is not applicable to all users.
> Note: I refuse to believe that ORing flags into a .long is less complex.
I do, too. It is as as complex as using tags. So what?
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-05 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-14 22:58 multiboot2: make multiboot header optional Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-15 8:57 ` Johan Rydberg
2006-11-15 18:42 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-15 20:42 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-15 21:39 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-15 23:38 ` tgingold
2006-11-25 2:59 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-25 3:35 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-25 4:25 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-12-02 16:18 ` Marco Gerards
2006-12-02 17:27 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-12-04 16:43 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-05 20:23 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-12-07 23:07 ` multiboot2: using tags in the multiboot header Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-12 22:23 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-12-04 20:35 ` multiboot2: make multiboot header optional Marco Gerards
2006-12-05 19:09 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-05 20:04 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2006-12-07 22:39 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-12 22:08 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-12-13 4:18 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-13 20:56 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-12-13 12:28 ` Marco Gerards
2006-12-02 16:15 ` Marco Gerards
2006-12-02 17:19 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-15 20:37 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-15 23:41 ` tgingold
2006-11-21 16:18 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-21 17:35 ` tgingold
2006-11-25 3:05 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-25 3:00 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-25 6:12 ` Tristan Gingold
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