From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] loader cleanup for i386-ieee1275
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:46:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801240946.09484.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080123145349.GA32203@thorin>
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 15:53, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 03:05:31PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> writes:
> > > Some cleanup for i386-ieee1275.
> >
> > Can you please give a bit more information?
>
> The multiboot module on i386-ieee1275 was using variables that only have a
> meaning on i386-pc (and i386-linuxbios): grub_os_area_addr,
> grub_os_area_size, grub_lower_mem and grub_upper_mem. A bunch of
> unnecessary cruft from i386-pc port was being included, because at the
> beginning I thought I would base the multiboot loader on i386-pc (like I
> did for i386-linuxbios), but this turned out to be a wrong approach.
If you have time, please consider refactoring the memory management on
i386-pc. It is in my task list for so long...
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-24 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-23 13:23 [PATCH] loader cleanup for i386-ieee1275 Robert Millan
2008-01-23 14:05 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-23 14:53 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-23 18:48 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-23 19:20 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-24 8:46 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2008-01-24 12:40 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-24 21:27 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
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