Re: [multiboot2] Tagged multiboot2 header

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:49:55AM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> +@node Header tags
> +@subsection General tag structure
> +Tags constitutes a buffer of structures immediately following each other.
> +Every structure has following format:
> +
> +@example
> +@group
> +        +-------------------+
> +0       | type              |
> +4       | size              |
> +8-11    | optional          |
> +        +-------------------+
> +@end group
> +@end example

This looks fine.  Please go ahead with the proposed new layout.

As for the addition of new fields for architecture / endianess, I wonder
if it makes sense to continue supporting aout-kludge in Multiboot 2.  It
seems that all of the projects interested in Multiboot use ELF natively
themselves and shouldn't have trouble with it, whereas projects that don't
use ELF are almost invariably proprietary OS and never showed any interest
in Multiboot.

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Robert Millan

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