From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1I0yj8-0003zV-8y for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:51:58 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0yj6-0003zA-EA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:51:56 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0yj5-0003yl-LX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:51:56 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0yj5-0003ye-8F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:51:55 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.27]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0yj4-0005bT-9h for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:51:54 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l5KBpqYs033677 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:51:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) From: Marco Gerards To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <4678D87D.7040700@gmail.com> Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:52:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4678D87D.7040700@gmail.com> (Mikhail Vorozhtsov's message of "Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:34:21 +0700") Message-ID: <87abuuhmhp.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 Subject: Re: Multiboot overhaul 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: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:51:57 -0000 Mikhail Vorozhtsov writes: Hi, > I'm working on a microkernel for x86_64 (with looking forward to ppc64 > and sparc64 ports). As you know, microkernels are quite useless without > user-space servers that provide "classic" OS services. But microkernels > are so useless that they even cannot load servers from disk :). That's > why bootloader need to load servers images directly into memory in > addition to image of microkernel itself. For i386-pc we have multiboot > and it "just works". But it's really too i386-pc-specific. We also > have draft of next multiboot version, but I think it still lacks > flexibility (e.g. single 'flags' field for all image format, platform, > and machine related features requests, no versioning). So I've > implemented new loader (patch attached) focused on exensibility and > versioning. Feel free to give feedback on the next multiboot. I think you understand we can't just accept a loader for something that is not discussed and most people are happy with. What's on the wiki is the result of discussion, but it is still open for discussion. Did you look at the information about this on the wiki? So I really hope you are willing to participate in this discussion. Feedback is welcome and so are patches that implement the final outcome of multiboot2 for any platform supported by GRUB 2. -- Marco