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From: Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@vrijschrift.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] split realmode and loader routines out of startup.S
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:15:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ir29342i.wl@dekkers.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071016210907.GA10870@thorin>

At Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:09:07 +0200,
Robert Millan wrote:
> This patch splits realmode and loader routines out of startup.S.  The idea
> is that the LinuxBIOS port can be adapted to share more code with the rest
> of GRUB instead of duplicating it.
> 
> This is quite critical stuff, so even if the change seems trivial I'd suggest
> being careful, since I don't trust myself too much.  Of course, I've tested
> that it can still boot Linux and Multiboot (on qemu only).  Perhaps testing
> on real hardware would be appropiate (but I don't have this handy atm).
<SNIP>
> 	* kern/i386/pc/startup.S (protstack): Moved to ...
> 	* kern/i386/realmode.S (protstack): ... here.
> 	* kern/i386/pc/startup.S (gdt): Moved to ...
> 	* kern/i386/realmode.S (gdt): ... here.
> 	* kern/i386/pc/startup.S (prot_to_real): Moved to ...
> 	* kern/i386/realmode.S (prot_to_real): ... here.
> 
> 	* kern/i386/pc/startup.S: Include `kern/i386/loader.S' and
> 	`kern/i386/realmode.S'.

Why did you move prot_to_real to realmode.S, but not real_to_prot?
That seems a bit strange to me...


Jeroen Dekkers



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-04 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-16 21:09 [PATCH] split realmode and loader routines out of startup.S Robert Millan
2007-10-17  8:32 ` Marco Gerards
2007-10-17  8:50   ` Robert Millan
2007-10-17 10:04     ` Marco Gerards
2007-10-17 10:26       ` Robert Millan
2007-10-17 10:35         ` Marco Gerards
2007-10-18 12:48           ` Robert Millan
2008-01-04 17:15 ` Jeroen Dekkers [this message]
2008-01-04 20:39   ` Robert Millan

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