From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: multiboot2 vs. grub2 implementation
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 17:48:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080206164834.GA3607@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080203163933.GJ1756@kirkkit.kollasch.net>
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:39:33AM -0600, jakllsch@kollasch.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the course of actually trying to use the MultibootDraft, I've discovered
> some places where the draft and the grub2 implementation differ.
>
> * Multiboot Information Tags
> * Start Tag
> The Draft says key is 0x0000, grub2 says 0x0001.
> * Boot Loader Name tag is different
> The Draft says 0x0001, grub2 says 0x0002.
> * Module/Kernel Tags
> These tags seem to have different keys and different data formats
> than the draft indicates.
> * Memory Map Tag
> Does not seem to be implemented.
Bean just committed his fix. Please, can you check if this addressed all
the discordances?
> The entry physical address field [...]
I think that was fixed as well. Could you check?
--
Robert Millan
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<DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak?
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-06 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-03 16:39 multiboot2 vs. grub2 implementation jakllsch
2008-02-03 17:11 ` walt
2008-02-05 20:23 ` jakllsch
2008-02-06 1:23 ` walt
2008-02-06 12:14 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-06 15:18 ` Bean
2008-02-06 15:33 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-06 16:48 ` Robert Millan [this message]
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