From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1QZq2G-0005Rk-6K for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:57:56 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40975) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZq2D-0005R8-50 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:57:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZq2B-0008GS-71 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:57:52 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:34269) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZq2A-0008G4-5r for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:57:50 -0400 Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so1865452wyg.0 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:57:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=5PG5v8rtWP6Ygyswm9NBvUesvq5K94VUcYg7NWrVFo4=; b=RhjQLYMFqsgEY8cUqExujsL069/5c7PBzTO4KoJX2Vs9nTPc1gmEkfrNEbcs0zUKn9 2H4ZYEMFdIXs43yt3PVYfpxOKRqFEmteGqP88riFD23eKLIVIjEy8qnHTNsvkTx1vfZM R6NPlxdE1f9REDK8QgPFSiOSt0SLUdKZSytUI= 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=OtiPzfFqDv+Wk4Jlt/b6hKNzZCiTVdZMzQItNMpTstrXSO8jWIAgtmlUlyFTYm67Ma Tx3Sx4RFFu7NiaSbky25r91mDVXdgtoFqCii0Tz/6qNvervhIMtF2Rw9McSzShieAdpL 4j1FxFCAenkNjl5myXtNfvqwuI5K8YiGQ/Qro= Received: by 10.227.200.198 with SMTP id ex6mr2257899wbb.73.1308859068480; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:57:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (183-81.62-81.cust.bluewin.ch [81.62.81.183]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id en1sm1477356wbb.35.2011.06.23.12.57.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:57:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E039AB8.1050701@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:57:44 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110606 Iceowl/1.0b2 Icedove/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: Contribution: a file loading module References: <4E035EF8.8050803@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigFFD1CDA39951E2C805DFC6C4" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.82.169 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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, 23 Jun 2011 19:57:54 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigFFD1CDA39951E2C805DFC6C4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 23.06.2011 21:41, Pierre-Nicolas Clauss wrote: > Basically, I wanted to have a small chainloader of mine to load my kern= el. > IIRC, I cannot use both the 'kernel' and 'chainloader' commands > together, so I just skipped using a multiboot compliant kernel and > have the chainloader to jump at a given address (1MB). > This module is only intended to load the kernel at this expected > address, so I only rely on the 'chainloader' command. > You need to just add a small header to make this kernel multiboot-compliant (read multiboot header and multiboot kludge) > But again, I'll try to make the whole thing a clean loader. > If I come up with such a loader, do you consider it could be eligible > for inclusion in grub ? Maybe maintaining the loaders for all the > kernel formats of hobbyist like me is not what you wish for... Nope. We won't maintain loaders for a single system which will always stay extremely minor (if your OS becomes major it can be reconsidered). --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enigFFD1CDA39951E2C805DFC6C4 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/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk4DmrgACgkQNak7dOguQgmYtgEAgWLkrKG26zIatWOhdJ6JFczu J/dP7+PPg5I9QlJauA4BAJa4lW7jy+N0SW2CDPaWs2mhoQzdypWUefDuTAForCWT =NTKD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigFFD1CDA39951E2C805DFC6C4--