From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N3bm6-0004s2-ON for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:39:14 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3bm3-0004p0-Nm for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:39:11 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3bly-0004k3-Gi for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:39:10 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48999 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3bly-0004jp-9r for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:39:06 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:35446 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3blx-0000iV-EL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:39:06 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N3blt-0006RE-RI; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:39:02 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N3blt-00012b-Ms; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:39:01 +0100 Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:39:01 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: Stefan Reinauer Message-ID: <20091029203901.GF3840@thorin> References: <20091026202053.GA21647@flashgordon> <20091029001756.GA12115@thorin> <4AE95936.5080408@coresystems.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AE95936.5080408@coresystems.de> 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, 3) Cc: The development of GRUB 2 , "Andreas B. Mundt" , coreboot@coreboot.org Subject: Re: [coreboot] grub as coreboot payload 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, 29 Oct 2009 20:39:12 -0000 On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:58:30AM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 09:20:53PM +0100, Andreas B. Mundt wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> first, congratulations to the 1.97-release! > >> > >> I vainly tried to run the latest grub2 (Revision: 2663) as payload to > >> coreboot (Revision: 4852) following the wikipage: > >> > >> http://grub.enbug.org/CoreBoot > >> > >> Is this page still up to date and does anybody use grub2 as payload > >> successfully? How? > >> > > > > Hi, > > > > It appears that since r4534 (move to Kconfig), Multiboot information is no > > longer built in by default. You have to enable it in "System tables" / > > "Generate Multiboot tables (for GRUB2)", then GRUB works fine (at least > > on QEMU, which I just tested). > > > > Coreboot developers: would you consider enabling it again? The overhead > > is minimal, and it would make this less confusing for users. > > > > > > Just checked, they're placed somewhere in the F segment. > > That means they'll be overwritten when SeaBIOS is used as payload. Not > tragic, but is there a better place we can put them? or would this even > be unhealthy or useless? It is useless. It would become useful when SeaBIOS supports Multiboot. But then, in order to get the main benefit of that (being loadable from PC/BIOS + GRUB stack), it can't be linked in F segment anyway. (Btw, I think a Multiboot SeaBIOS would be really interesting, specially on non-BIOS x86 platforms like OFW or EFI) -- 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."