From: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, arvidjaar@gmail.com,
eric.snowberg@oracle.com, jgross@suse.com,
konrad.wilk@oracle.com, phcoder@gmail.com,
seth.goldberg@oracle.com
Subject: [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH v2 03/11] multiboot2: Clarify meaning of information request header tag
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 21:40:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1480020010-18421-4-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1480020010-18421-1-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
---
v2 - suggestions/fixes:
- rephrase some sentences
(suggested by Andrew Cooper),
- add missing the articles
(suggested by Andrew Cooper).
---
doc/multiboot.texi | 20 ++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/multiboot.texi b/doc/multiboot.texi
index c438b38..771aeab 100644
--- a/doc/multiboot.texi
+++ b/doc/multiboot.texi
@@ -443,15 +443,19 @@ u32[n] | mbi_tag_types |
@end group
@end example
-@samp{mbi_tag_types} is an array of u32 each one representing an information
-request
-If this tag is present and @samp{optional} is set to @samp{0} information
-conveyed by requested tag types must be present. If bootloader is unable
-to supply this information it must fail with an error
+@samp{mbi_tag_types} is an array of u32's, each one representing an information request.
-Note: it doesn't garantee that any tags of type @samp{mbi_tag_types} will
-actually be present. E.g. on a videoless system even if you requested tag
-@samp{8} no tags of type @samp{8} will be present in mbi.
+If this tag is present and @samp{optional} is set to @samp{0}, the bootloader must
+support the requested tag and be able to provide relevant information to the image
+if it is available. If the bootloader does not understand the meaning of the requested
+tag it must fail with an error. However, if it supports a given tag but the information
+conveyed by it is not available the bootloader does not provide the requested tag in
+the Multiboot2 information structure and passes control to the loaded image as usual.
+
+Note: The above means that there is no guarantee that any tags of type @samp{mbi_tag_types}
+will actually be present. E.g. on a videoless system even if you requested tag @samp{8}
+and the bootloader supports it, no tags of type @samp{8} will be present in the Multiboot2
+information structure.
@node Address header tag
--
1.7.10.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-24 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-24 20:39 [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH v2 00/10] multiboot2: Update documentation Daniel Kiper
2016-11-24 20:40 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH v2 01/11] multiboot2: Rename Multiboot to Multiboot2 Daniel Kiper
2016-11-28 18:06 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-11-29 8:45 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-11-24 20:40 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH v2 02/11] multiboot2: Replace redundant if with the Daniel Kiper
2016-11-24 20:40 ` Daniel Kiper [this message]
2016-11-24 20:40 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH v2 04/11] multiboot2: Fix description of EFI boot services tag Daniel Kiper
2016-11-24 20:40 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH v2 05/11] multiboot2: Add description of support for EFI boot services Daniel Kiper
2016-11-24 21:47 ` Toomas Soome
2016-11-28 15:46 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-11-28 16:24 ` Toomas Soome
2016-11-28 17:53 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-11-29 9:08 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-11-29 9:39 ` Toomas Soome
2016-11-29 10:09 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-11-29 10:34 ` Toomas Soome
2016-11-24 20:40 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH v2 06/11] multiboot2: Add description of EFI image handle tags Daniel Kiper
2016-11-28 17:59 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-11-29 9:18 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-11-24 20:40 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH v2 07/11] multiboot2: Add description of support for relocatable images Daniel Kiper
2016-11-24 20:40 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH v2 08/11] multiboot2: Say that memory maps may not be available on EFI platforms Daniel Kiper
2016-11-24 20:40 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH v2 09/11] multiboot2: Add C structure members alignment and padding consideration section Daniel Kiper
2016-11-24 20:40 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH v2 10/11] multiboot2: Add me to authors Daniel Kiper
2016-11-24 20:40 ` [MULTIBOOT2 DOC PATCH v2 11/11] multiboot2: Bump version to 2.0 Daniel Kiper
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