From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Tagged mbi
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 22:08:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100107210841.GA26340@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B4259D3.5020004@gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 10:12:51PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Hello. Currently mbi contains a lot of pointers and substructures. It's
> has various problems like:
> -Unused fields occupy space if any subsequent fields is used.
> -Difficult to relocate since it may be spilled all over the memory
> -It's unstraightforward to e.g. specify 2 framebuffers
Seems like there's a problem indeed.
> I propose to use tagged MBI.
Can you provide a short explanation on this proposed solution? You explained
the problem, but not the solution.
--
Robert Millan
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-07 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-04 21:12 [RFC] Tagged mbi Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-07 21:08 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2010-01-07 21:32 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-07 21:16 ` Multiboot 2 branch (Re: [RFC] Tagged mbi) Robert Millan
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