From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DqkWx-0005j1-8M for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:32:03 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqkWv-0005iI-2D for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:32:01 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqkWt-0005hg-F2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:32:00 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqkWt-0005hO-Bz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:31:59 -0400 Received: from [203.59.3.38] (helo=mail.iinet.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DqkaW-00083s-IQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:35:45 -0400 Received: (qmail 14978 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2005 04:28:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?203.206.51.214?) (203.206.51.214) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 8 Jul 2005 04:28:13 -0000 Message-ID: <42CE01B6.8050306@iinet.net.au> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 14:31:50 +1000 From: James Buchanan User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Update Multiboot spec X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 04:32:01 -0000 Is anyone working on an updated Multiboot specification? If no, I think we should start one and make a page for it on the GRUB-2 devel wiki. It should have extra options to scan for the MP structure on IA-32 machines, generalize the video options as much as possible (give framebuffer address and device and manufacturer IDs, bus and function number, something like that -- would it work for PowerPC and other machines?), options for detecting all hardware (e.g. linked structures saying I found so-and-so PCI cards, so-and-so type of graphics/sound/ethernet cards, monitor type and ID, this system has ACPI, CPUID for IA-32, things like that.) I'm just thinking out loud here. Does anyone want to help write a new Multiboot spec? Thanks, James