From: "Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Move loader.c out of the kernel
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:21:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D38692.9080201@nic.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D38446.6030302@gmail.com>
phcoder wrote:
> This usage case isn't the main target case. If you embed the loader
> (which tend to be quite big) then you already have an overhead from
> loader module. Why are you so concerned with overhead of boot.mod?
> But on the other hand this forces all the people in other cases to have
> boot code in core.img. I want to add preboot hooks and don't want
> increment size of kernel. multiboot.mod currently increases the size by
> around 11KB. And my patch doesn't restrict you from putting loader in
> core.img in any way
Even if you add the preboot hooks there, it should only cause size
affect in couple of bytes for uncompressed image.
Like in following "sketch":
...
preboot_handler_address: dd 0
...
cmp [preboot_handler_address], 0
je no_preboot_handler
call [preboot_handler_address]
no_preboot_handler:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-01 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-22 12:48 Move loader.c out of the kernel phcoder
2009-03-22 12:57 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2009-03-22 13:06 ` phcoder
2009-03-22 13:12 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2009-03-22 13:30 ` phcoder
2009-03-22 14:01 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2009-03-22 14:19 ` phcoder
2009-03-22 14:59 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2009-03-22 14:54 ` Robert Millan
2009-03-31 8:56 ` phcoder
2009-04-01 13:52 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2009-04-01 14:19 ` Robert Millan
2009-04-01 14:42 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2009-04-01 15:12 ` phcoder
2009-04-01 15:21 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen [this message]
2009-04-01 15:46 ` phcoder
2009-04-05 15:19 ` phcoder
2009-04-15 12:46 ` phcoder
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