From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NNwBc-0007P8-RK for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:29:37 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NNwBZ-0007Jt-TY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:29:34 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NNwBS-00072L-5q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:29:30 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35846 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NNwBS-000727-0N for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:29:26 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:43004 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 1NNwBR-0007hw-KV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:29:25 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NNwBQ-0000By-AD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:29:24 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NNwBP-0003Pb-Ff for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:29:23 +0100 Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:29:23 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20091224222923.GW12122@thorin> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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) Subject: Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:29:34 -0000 On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:37:11PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Hello. I'm implementing video part of multiboot specification. > Currently the only defined interface is for providing VBE info. I > propose following way to set fields if video is non VBE: > vbe_control_info=0xffffffff > When vbe_control_info is set to 0xffffffff all VBE-specific fields are invalid > vbe_mode set to 0xffff > vbe_interface_seg=0xffff > vbe_interface_off=0xffff > vbe_interface_len=0xff > vbe_mode_info points to structure similar to vbe_mode_info but with > all vbe-specific fields set to zero. Remaining (valid) fields are > (full structur is in include/grub/i386/pc/vbe.h) This seems like one of these cases in which legacy gets in the way. Why don't we just replace the legacy structure with something that doesn't need dummy fields? -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi