From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NvsOx-0004WR-PK for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:19:39 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NvsOw-0004WJ-60 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:19:38 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49937 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvsOt-0004WA-S5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:19:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvsOs-0000yG-Ja for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:19:35 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]:4515) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvsOs-0000yC-E3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:19:34 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so568078fga.12 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:19:33 -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 :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=7YokZ/fhbZq2eb/VnJYXHmviYrkYQ/G8DNTtO5zCbJk=; b=HKPxc3ZEZ6toey91v4Jm9JNuXZ4pIadGk5i8fVyUpcaJk7fjCIPGInp2sImhuJN2dJ MFJyQ7eUBjMxxtIkAKSUBEWeOay24vJ+fLjl/spDvq1N2qEq8rVSHq+AGsq5KSDmaToo dz7Nrd/GxN4QbzQWSeS/7fxRBZxx9c7Bfwk3s= 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:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=LmnLq7hlZFPOsxZv3SpoCJknonZPdxKBnabjI8+8qHHWgvf+Sk+XZo/E3g85P01QHz n13/nyA1nm1AowkhOoeMpi94tKHqA4euyF6S97dE5HsaF7NoADHX2Ur/I15tWuHIPHDU 1FU07fPPPTQ9/uDWv6oMIWcVU2iXbqUn3W9QE= Received: by 10.86.6.16 with SMTP id 16mr1393225fgf.55.1269782373377; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet ([81.62.10.50]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d13sm7017248fka.32.2010.03.28.06.19.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:19:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BAF575D.3090603@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:19:25 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20091109) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <4BAF4E95.5080501@gmail.com> <183886.30279.qm@web113216.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <183886.30279.qm@web113216.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig6C844CEA20F0741763D2834A" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Switching multiboot2 to tagged X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:19:38 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig6C844CEA20F0741763D2834A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bogdan wrote: > Sorry for the top-down reply, Yahoo! is stupid like that. Anyway, I saw= a firmware tag somewhere in a patch. What happened to that? > > =20 It's not in current multiboot2. It had few problems like usage of memory map for some of firmware calls. Please use new thread per idea to discuss ammendments. > Cheers, > Bogdan > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > To: The development of GRUB 2 > Sent: Sun, March 28, 2010 3:41:57 PM > Subject: Switching multiboot2 to tagged > > Hello, all. As nobody voiced any opposition to moving to tagged > multiboot it's done. Spec is available at > http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/branches/multiboot2/ > and implementation is already in grub2 mainline (as multiboot2 command)= =2E > To the best of my knowledge all fields are properly aligned and the > whole is quite portable except "machine state" section which will have > to be rewritten for every architecture. If you're interested in seeing > multiboot2 spec on your favorite (or non-fvorite) ISA feel free to > propose ammendments. > Some of information which seems deprecated in multiboot1 wasn't carried= > over to tagged version. If you disagree about their deprecation feel > free to propose ammendments. They weren't removed because of being > considered harmful but because updating them seemed like a waste of tim= e. > Also I'm aware that at least some people want more tags. Feel free to > propose new ones. > In short all ammendment ideas are welcome. > > =20 --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig6C844CEA20F0741763D2834A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iF4EAREKAAYFAkuvV2MACgkQNak7dOguQgn2owD/WoZ0aSZI4hAEudCnUXUaGvQ8 7KYcMM2+WDOCFY8uNFAA/1VaC6VWW+EIYOm5v5YuaTy8UbcBfnEvJQjCnUsCzoHU =IPHn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6C844CEA20F0741763D2834A--