From: James Buchanan <jamesb.au@iinet.net.au>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: okuji@enbug.org
Subject: Re: Update Multiboot spec
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:57:24 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42CE23D4.2060202@iinet.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200507080739.45861.okuji@enbug.org>
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> In principle, we do not want to use the Multiboot Specification as helper
> functions. It is a boot protocol, but not an OS library. For example, CPUID
> is not necessarily useful to probe in a boot loader, since operating systems
> can probe it after the control is passed. There is no reason why a boot
> loader must handle it.
>
> The most important goal of the next version of Multiboot Specification is
> portability. There are some ideas about this, but not decided yet. I hope you
> could help this.
You're right -- I got carried away there. I looked at GRUB's own
support code and forgot to separate the two.
I'd be glad to help if I can. I'm working on some GRUB-2 code at the
moment, studying it and trying to figure out some video card stuff.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-08 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-08 4:31 Update Multiboot spec James Buchanan
2005-07-08 5:39 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-07-08 6:57 ` James Buchanan [this message]
2005-07-09 2:49 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-07-09 5:19 ` Cyril Plisko
2005-07-10 22:28 ` Hollis Blanchard
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