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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add multi-boot kernel loading support
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@suse.de>

Alexander Graf wrote:
>=20
> On 03.02.2009, at 09:15, Rene Rebe wrote:
>=20
>> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>=20
> [...]
>=20
>>
>>> Weird indent.
>>> What all uses multiboot at this point?  I know Xen does.
>>
>> Maybe other homebrew desktop kernels. I remeber there also
>> went support into NetBSD some time ago.
>=20
> I know Kevin developed a kernel that was based on multiboot. The=20
> original purpose was to load the darwin bootloader, modified to run wit=
h=20
> multiboot. Hurd does multiboot too IIRC.

Indeed, how could we overlook to list it? For Hurd the multiboot
SPEC might even been defined initially?

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