From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MRT99-0004Ep-Jk for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:45:23 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRT97-0004Ca-Uk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:45:21 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRT92-000491-Oq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:45:21 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49144 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRT92-00048u-M3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:45:16 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:53034) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRT92-0007n5-52 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:45:16 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MRS3n-0003YS-5l for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:35:48 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MRT8t-0001px-Fm for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:45:07 +0200 Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:45:07 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090716154507.GC6771@thorin> References: <20090715010017.17865.58915.stgit@mj.roinet.com> <20090715010030.17865.52419.stgit@mj.roinet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090715010030.17865.52419.stgit@mj.roinet.com> 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 3/7] Eliminate kernel_segment 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, 16 Jul 2009 15:45:22 -0000 On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 09:00:30PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > ChangeLog: > > * boot/i386/pc/boot.S (kernel_segment): Remove. > (copy_buffer): Copy to 0x0000:0x8000, not to 0x0800:0x0000. This looks like it would set an higher limit to the kernel link address. Are we certain we want this? -- 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."