From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DqmrP-0004r5-MA for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 03:01:20 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqmrB-0004lf-Dp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 03:01:06 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dqmr5-0004iV-Uh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 03:01:01 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dqmr4-0004Vk-78 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 03:00:58 -0400 Received: from [203.59.3.39] (helo=mail.iinet.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dqmqm-0007aJ-NY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 03:00:41 -0400 Received: (qmail 9638 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2005 06:53:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?203.206.51.214?) (203.206.51.214) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 8 Jul 2005 06:53:47 -0000 Message-ID: <42CE23D4.2060202@iinet.net.au> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:57:24 +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: The development of GRUB 2 References: <42CE01B6.8050306@iinet.net.au> <200507080739.45861.okuji@enbug.org> In-Reply-To: <200507080739.45861.okuji@enbug.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: okuji@enbug.org Subject: Re: 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 07:01:10 -0000 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