From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JI9bk-0007bU-Pl for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:27:36 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JI9bj-0007aJ-5J for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:27:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JI9bi-0007ZJ-LX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:27:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JI9bi-0007Z8-6X for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:27:34 -0500 Received: from ns39764.ovh.net ([91.121.25.85] helo=nexedi.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JI9bh-0005We-S5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:27:34 -0500 Received: from [10.8.0.46] (unknown [10.8.0.46]) by nexedi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17B3E3EB23 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:33:42 +0100 (CET) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:27:22 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20080123132318.GA29666@thorin> <200801240946.09484.okuji@enbug.org> <20080124124019.GG2249@thorin> In-Reply-To: <20080124124019.GG2249@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801242227.22960.okuji@enbug.org> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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 21:27:35 -0000 On Thursday 24 January 2008 13:40, Robert Millan wrote: > 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? Yes. My description was very terse, though. Okuji