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From: phcoder <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] remove bsd asm helper functions
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:39:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4992AAD9.2020200@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4992A884.4050406@gmail.com>

Sorry, forgot changelog entry. Here it is:
2009-02-11  Vladimir Serbinenko  <phcoder@gmail.com>

	Move BSD helper out of kernel

	* conf/i386-pc.rmk: Add loader/i386/bsd_helper.S to _bsd.mod
	* kern/i386/loader.S: Removed BSD helpers
	* include/grub/i386/loader.h: Removed declaration of
	grub_unix_real_boot
	* loader/i386/bsd.c (grub_freebsd_boot): Replaced call to
	grub_unix_real_boot by direct call of kernel
	(grub_netbsd_boot): Likewise
	(grub_openbsd_boot): Likewise

phcoder wrote:
> Hello. Asm helper functions for bsd aren't really needed. Actually BSD 
> entry point may be called directly as cdecl function. With this approach 
> theese helper functions don't take place in kernel anymore. Tested with 
> freebsd, openbsd and netbsd. However my tests were limited to launching 
> kernel and see if it complains about not being able to mount root. Can 
> someone test it with complete system?
> Thanks
> Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
> 




  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-11 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-11 10:29 [Patch] remove bsd asm helper functions phcoder
2009-02-11 10:39 ` phcoder [this message]
2009-03-12 12:00   ` phcoder

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