From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NSzbC-00081M-5r for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:08:54 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSzbA-0007yF-5c for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:08:52 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSzb3-0007q8-Ov for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:08:50 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60918 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSzb3-0007pW-Am for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:08:45 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:45448 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 1NSzb2-0007gL-C5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:08:44 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NSzaz-0001LY-Oy for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:08:41 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NSzaz-0006s4-8n for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:08:41 +0100 Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 22:08:41 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20100107210841.GA26340@thorin> References: <4B4259D3.5020004@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4B4259D3.5020004@gmail.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, 3) Subject: Re: [RFC] Tagged mbi 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, 07 Jan 2010 21:08:52 -0000 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