On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 08:00:53PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > Sorry, that won't fly. The official Multiboot spec at > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.html lacks > quite a few things needed by the OS and supported by coreboot tables.
So if I show you working code that proves your statement wrong, I assume you'd have no objection? > That means the concerns about size are valid and the proposed way to fix > them won't work. I believe I can implement a loader whose size is reasonably small. But again, I'd rather back that up with code than expect to be blindly trusted. > What advantages does Multiboot have over storing the parsed kernel in > the LAR? Will Multiboot make SELF obsolete before it's even introduced? > How about the ELF loader already in coreboot v3? I think you're confusing Multiboot with an executable file format, like ELF, but it's mostly orthogonal to that. In fact, Multiboot is commonly used in combination with ELF. And I don't know what SELF is, but I don't pretend to obsolete anything, just want to provide users with an option. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
