From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: efi platform and multiboot kernel
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:59:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806181959.22611.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0f59980806172327k2eb5f06dqaa75633a2de3faad@mail.gmail.com>
On Wednesday 18 June 2008 08:27:09 Bean wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 4:32 AM, David Holloway <daveh@dholloway.com> wrote:
> > I've just edumacated myself about how the platforms are defined.
> >
> > Let me get this straight, the efi platform does not yet support loading a
> > multiboot kernel?
> >
> > I'm working with embedded kernels here, not just Linux.
>
> Hi,
>
> It's not difficult to add multiboot support, but the question is, can
> they support efi ? In linux, we can pass the efi system table using
> boot parameter, but there is no such thing in multiboot, so the kernel
> need to be able to access hardware directly after taking over.
Note that the Multiboot Specificatin 2 is designed to be capable of supporting
a wide range of platforms. All you must do is define the spec for EFI (and
implement it).
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-18 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200806171725.m5HHPQfx078913@shoebox.dholloway.com>
2008-06-17 20:32 ` efi platform and multiboot kernel David Holloway
2008-06-18 6:27 ` Bean
2008-06-18 6:43 ` Andrei E. Warkentin
2008-06-18 7:02 ` Bean
2008-06-18 17:59 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2008-06-18 22:23 ` Robert Millan
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