From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr7r0-000238-FA for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:26:18 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr7qr-0001zX-BR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:26:09 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr7qj-0001uB-1y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:26:02 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr7qi-0001tj-St for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:26:01 -0400 Received: from [212.179.48.188] (helo=mobile.Hermes.clf.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dr7s8-0006By-0A for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:27:28 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.101] ([82.81.86.102]) by mobile.Hermes.clf.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Sat, 9 Jul 2005 08:19:37 +0300 Message-ID: <42CF5E7B.6030808@CLLF.COM> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 08:19:55 +0300 From: Cyril Plisko User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) 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> <42CE23D4.2060202@iinet.net.au> <200507090449.24206.okuji@enbug.org> In-Reply-To: <200507090449.24206.okuji@enbug.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Jul 2005 05:19:37.0823 (UTC) FILETIME=[CD14CEF0:01C58445] 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: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 05:26:12 -0000 Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Friday 08 July 2005 08:57, James Buchanan wrote: > >>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. > > > I think we need to list up what information must be passed by a boot loader on > every architecture and each architecture first. I made two new pages on the > wiki: > > http://www.autistici.org/grub/moin.cgi/MultibootRequirements > http://www.autistici.org/grub/moin.cgi/MultibootIdeas > > Feel free to edit these pages. > > I think some survey is required. It would be worth checking how existing > systems deal with each architecture (such as Linux, NetBSD and L4KA). > I am not sure how applicable it is here, but when I read about tags I immediately thought of IEEE1212 directory format. Anyone think that can be useful here ? Cyril