From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JHcOm-0000j7-Ti for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:00:01 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHcOg-0000i7-GW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:59:56 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHcOe-0000hL-I4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:59:53 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHcOd-0000gm-7Z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:59:52 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHcOc-00062m-LT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:59:50 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JHcOZ-0004t9-CB; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:59:49 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JHcMo-0000U4-PS; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:57:58 +0100 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:57:58 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080123095758.GB1159@thorin> References: <20080121013836.GA8887@thorin> <87lk6gsydj.fsf@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <87lk6gsydj.fsf@xs4all.nl> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: Torsten Duwe Subject: Re: [PATCH] enable multiboot2 loader on i386-ieee1275 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, 23 Jan 2008 09:59:56 -0000 On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:08:08AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > Robert Millan writes: > > > This makes multiboot2 work on i386-ieee1275. Tested both with elf32 and > > elf64 images. > > It looks ok to me. Ok, committed. > > In case of elf32 OFW images, they won't work because EAX is used for multiboot > > information and can't hold the needed pointer to OFW callback interface. See > > the comment I added to the draft: > > > > http://grub.enbug.org/MultibootDraft#head-84d7c3521d0235f08f7fffaf35e2d06ced2f0a68 > > Can't you use a tag for the pointer? We can, but that's not useful. If we can't make them compatible, I find it more feasible to write a separate loader for OFW images. Though I don't see why not do it. The boot abi is already compatible on PowerPC: http://grub.enbug.org/MultibootDraft#head-198f9346038a3782a8263de281dd9cf2eb2759a8 -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)