Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:13:15AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> Can't you use a tag for the pointer? >> > >> > We can, but that's not useful. If we can't make them compatible, I find it >> > more feasible to write a separate loader for OFW images. >> >> Why not? > > Because right now you can turn an existing ELF program into > Multiboot-compliance > with only adding three lines: > > .long 0xe85250d6 > .long 0 > .long -0xe85250d6 > > this will allow you to boot it with GRUB. OTOH, if you have to add support > for tag processing, and change the way it initialises its callback pointer, > that makes it less worthwile.
True. >> > Though I don't see why not do it. The boot abi is already compatible on >> > PowerPC: >> > >> > >> > http://grub.enbug.org/MultibootDraft#head-198f9346038a3782a8263de281dd9cf2eb2759a8 >> >> Do you suggest to change the interface for x86? > > Yes. Multiboot2 is still a draft and not widely used (not even in comparison > to > Multiboot1). I don't think it's a big problem to change this. We could use ebx or so. Or will this cause new problems? -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
