On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:16:43AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 14:13 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:32:59PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > - jmp EXT_C(cmain) > > > + jmp EXT_C(grub_main) > > > > Or maybe that should be a "call" instead.. > > Only if there is any chance of return, and we can handle it.
Well, Lubomir suggested that you need that return address for gdb. Is that correct? > "exit" in open firmware based systems would probably mean returning > control to open firmware. Note that our ieee1275 exit is implemented via interrupt, which I believe has equivalent effect. We don't need the return address for that, in this case. > By the way, it would be nice to have "exit" in both grub for PC and > grub-emu, and not only in the rescue mode. "exit" on PC means returning > control to BIOS so it can try another boot device. "exit" in grub-emu > means exit, of course. I have to use "reboot" now (which should not > exit, but rather restart grub-emu, if it belongs to grub-emu at all) or > "rescue" followed by "exit". Agreed. -- 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
