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
>
next prev parent 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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