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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: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:57:34 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7B8BB86D751201F897F50B9B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 07.04.2011 16:50, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Vladimir '=C3=8F=E2=80=A0-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" writes: > >> On 07.04.2011 14:09, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've been working on a 32bit->64bit trampoline based on the example >>> kernel that just switches to 64bit mode and executes a real kernel >>> passed as module. As real kernel I want to use grubs example kernel a= s >>> well to just verify the multiboot infos passed through the trampoline= >>> are intact. >> Please don't use outdated code as base. Now we work on multiboot2 and > I've seen multiboot2 mentioned but I can't find specs for it. What I > did find are the "Multiboot Specification version 0.6.96" [1] > > So where is this multiboot2? > Latest multiboot1 (cleanups) is at http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/multiboot/ Multiboot2 is at http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/branches/multiboot2/ >> before just "let's replace all 32 with 64" some things like page table= >> need to be du=C3=83=C2=AEscussed. Please start a discussion thread for= those > Actualy what I needed to do was replace the 64 with 32. My 64bit mode > still uses the multiboot specs with its 32bit fields. I use that becaus= e > that is what grub and kvm give me. Most changes were just to make it us= e > 32bit data types in 32bit and 64bit mode as required by the specs. > > For page tables I use 6 pages. 1x Level 4, 1x Level 3, 4x Level 2 with > 2MB granularity creating a 1:1 mapping of the first 4 GB ram. But I've > been thinking that maybe the multiboot header could have entries for > the gpt and page table to be used. But that is something do discuss in > another thread. > > MfG > Goswin > > [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.html > --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig7B8BB86D751201F897F50B9B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk2d0NIACgkQNak7dOguQgmi0AD/V8Mbx31YvzvaKimZ3x693st1 aGBVFEo9pGhnXqDcFnUA/ivcG8a631bn3fcnxEbPo95dISMvdS5IQ2wVttusQs1B =kIsk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7B8BB86D751201F897F50B9B--