From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Mvs6d-0004RR-Uf for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:28:28 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mvs6R-0004NW-Kz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:28:16 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mvs6K-0004LY-Qx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:28:13 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36289 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mvs6H-0004Kg-Jx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:28:06 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f205.google.com ([209.85.220.205]:42732) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mvs6H-0001h0-6F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:28:05 -0400 Received: by fxm1 with SMTP id 1so5023183fxm.31 for ; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:28:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=gzrqcmq5NTzQZw4ElPeKrbZ7495OsEmQbdt9pVoLyTc=; b=hJQSlN/9130hVi4Iqn+cZuiMFEfD1HJOy5MSY4CYQozJHkKEsdovlHqADlm8XHCcFv GnE7LcFufpUvxvGnyjDdJgfDIWbHPq0pex+xMNl8VqNVHNLCsqzGPmnjDkjMnNMKMTp4 nHUT3fPgaNfa+7c3PQx+87+oxFsfchKmQAdDQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CbQ2Jya+3geW1uY/DCLn3vPY3NoSo+0mW4+8qjWc/k1feMq+Y2VaRx+plqQEMUXjiT qmmBDYnxndQ+YiZYpNmq21+4g5xcI7VxoJxeoQ3znbpooKVEQ4+jZeCii0GuPdwM8ALq 8xqids6VOtwfpk9Sxbte4hBfwiWtBFZRm/ZIg= Received: by 10.204.49.73 with SMTP id u9mr996721bkf.129.1255004884122; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:28:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (hpx-public-dock-152-dhcp.ethz.ch [82.130.83.152]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z15sm3835815fkz.14.2009.10.08.05.28.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4ACDDAD1.6090709@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:28:01 +0200 From: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090701) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <7418.56476.qm@web37108.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <7418.56476.qm@web37108.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: 16-bit bootloader support? 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: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:28:17 -0000 Bogdan wrote: > Most probably the developers of GRUB will say that this is useless but > did anyone think of adding 16-bit protected mode support to the > Multiboot specification and to GRUB? Which mode do you mean? protected mode=32-bit mode You may mean vm8086 mode but it's meant only for compatibility purposes. As such it's an OS responsibility to set it up when executing legacy code > > Cheers, > Bogdan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > -- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git