From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JI1Po-00049i-Sw for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:42:44 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JI1Pm-00046C-PQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:42:42 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JI1Pl-00043v-86 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:42:42 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JI1Pl-00043m-2G for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:42:41 -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 1JI1Pk-0003iI-Ld for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:42:40 -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 1JI1PX-0007OG-KU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:42:31 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JI1NT-0001Fl-K3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:40:19 +0100 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:40:19 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080124124019.GG2249@thorin> References: <20080123132318.GA29666@thorin> <87sl0oocwk.fsf@xs4all.nl> <20080123145349.GA32203@thorin> <200801240946.09484.okuji@enbug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200801240946.09484.okuji@enbug.org> 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. Subject: Re: [PATCH] loader cleanup for 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: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:42:43 -0000 On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:46:09AM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > > 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... Is there a savannah task for this? -- 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 /.)