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From: "Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Sendkey patch
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:53:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BECF2A.4080703@nic.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48BECDDD.5040502@gmail.com>

phcoder wrote:
> Hello. In this case we can transfer the whole functionality located in
> kern/loader.c to a dedicated module boot.mod. This module will also
> register "boot" command. In this way the encapsulation won't be broken
> and kernel will become even smaller.

Remember that realmode code needs to reside below < 1 MiB. That is the
reason realmode code is embedded in kernel. In there you only see jumps
to RM and back to PM.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-03 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-02 14:23 Sendkey patch phcoder
2008-09-02 14:54 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-02 15:58   ` phcoder
2008-09-02 16:12     ` phcoder
2008-09-02 16:19     ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-02 19:01       ` phcoder
2008-09-02 19:29         ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-02 16:30     ` Javier Martín
2008-09-02 18:39       ` phcoder
2008-09-02 20:10         ` Javier Martín
2008-09-02 22:22           ` phcoder
2008-09-02 23:38             ` Javier Martín
2008-09-03  0:08               ` phcoder
2008-09-03  0:54                 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-03  9:10                   ` phcoder
2008-09-03 11:19                     ` Javier Martín
2008-09-03 10:37                   ` bitbucket
2008-09-03  7:07               ` Felix Zielcke
2008-09-03 17:07               ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-03 17:23                 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-03 17:25                   ` Felix Zielcke
2008-09-03 17:48                 ` phcoder
2008-09-03 17:53                   ` Vesa Jääskeläinen [this message]
2008-09-03 18:11                     ` phcoder
2008-09-04 22:16                     ` Javier Martín
2008-09-05 16:13                       ` [PATCH] Move kern/loader.c to boot.mod and add preboot_support (was Re: Sendkey patch) phcoder
2008-09-05 16:47                         ` Javier Martín
2008-09-08 19:48                         ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-08 20:11                           ` Javier Martín
2008-09-08 20:25                             ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-08 20:59                               ` Javier Martín
2008-12-15 13:54                                 ` phcoder
2008-12-15 16:41                                   ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-12-16 14:34                                     ` phcoder
2009-02-07 19:26                                 ` Robert Millan
2009-02-07 19:30                             ` Robert Millan
2009-02-07 23:02                               ` phcoder

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