On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:38:48AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > >> > 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?
Well, EBX itself is being used for the MBI, so not a good choice ;-) About using a free register (I think ECX and EDX aren't used), this might cause the inconvenience that you might need to reestructure startup code, in case it is laid out in a way that already makes use of that register. I don't think this is the case for the average OFW application that is written in C and just has a few lines of asm in _start. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
