Add a note to spell out that if the address tag is not present the file should be loaded using the elf header.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com> --- Cc: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com> Cc: xen-de...@lists.xenproject.org --- doc/multiboot.texi | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/multiboot.texi b/doc/multiboot.texi index 2e2d7e74a..196f9c17a 100644 --- a/doc/multiboot.texi +++ b/doc/multiboot.texi @@ -509,6 +509,12 @@ assumes that no bss segment is present. @end table +Note: This information does not need to be provided if the kernel +image is in elf format, but it must be provided if the image is in +a.out format or in some other format. Compliant boot loaders must be +able to load images that are either in elf format or contain the +address tag embedded in the Multiboot header. + @subsection The entry address tag of Multiboot2 header @example -- 2.17.0 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
