From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NXNa0-0001QP-Sg for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:33:48 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXNZy-0001Pc-Ts for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:33:46 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXNZu-0001Os-Dg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:33:46 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50463 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXNZu-0001Op-9C for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:33:42 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:44347 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 1NXNZt-00043m-P8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:33:41 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NXNZp-0000GZ-Fk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:33:38 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NXNZl-0002pa-O9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:33:33 +0100 Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:33:33 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20100119233333.GO8599@thorin> References: <4B50A373.3060203@gmail.com> <20100119225354.GG8599@thorin> <4B563D86.1000103@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4B563D86.1000103@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: [PATCH] Add 2 more E820 to ACPI specification 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: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:33:47 -0000 On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:17:26AM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 06:18:43PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > > >> Hello. This defines 2 more types for mmap_type in a way to match E820 > >> values. As grub legacy and grub2 both just pass E820 values through it > >> shouldn't be any problem. > >> > > > > Note that although Multiboot's memory map format is modelled after e820, > > it is defined by us, not by BIOS vendors. > > > > > Yes, but this information is needed and I prefer to provide it in > grub-legacy-compatible way. > >> -value of 1 indicates available @sc{ram}, and all other values currently > >> +value of 1 indicates available @sc{ram}, value of 3 indicates usable memory > >> +holding ACPI information, > >> > > > > I'm concerned about increasing the amount of arch-specific references; what do > > Multiboot kernels that use ACPI currently do? > > > > > According to a post by Bernard Trotter many of them rely on multiboot > loader passing e820 through I just checked GRUB Legacy; it seems that it is passing through the whole thing. I think this was a mistake, but it's too late to fix it now. Feel free to commit this. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi