From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MITkM-0002ds-LD for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:34:38 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MITkL-0002dn-RE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:34:37 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MITkH-0002dI-Be for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:34:37 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43786 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MITkH-0002dF-8T for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:34:33 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:45834) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MITkG-0000FG-Sp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:34:33 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MIShL-0004mv-Og for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:27:28 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MITkE-0006ft-08 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:34:30 +0200 Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:34:29 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090621203429.GA25625@thorin> References: <20090621181748.GA21152@thorin> <1245610842.4250.6.camel@mj> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1245610842.4250.6.camel@mj> 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/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port 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: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:34:37 -0000 On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 03:00:42PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 20:17 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I ported GRUB to QEMU. It's mostly based on the coreboot port, with the > > main difference being that we include code to transition from i8086 mode, > > an i386 firmware entry point and produce raw code images instead of ELF. > > That's great news! Eventually, it would be nice to have support for > many other platforms supported by qemu, such as arm and mips. Sure! I hope it's going to be easier for arm and mips. For i386 GRUB had to jump between FOUR areas of code in memory before it can call grub_main() (this is what happens after 30 years of backward compatibility kludges...) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."