My understanding that multiboot was the ramdisk reader and at least some variant of it was needed, albeit it may be a small subset. At a minmum I guess we should be looking at its code and understand what it does exactly :)
Sven Luther wrote: >On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:41:01AM -0800, thomas riddle wrote: > > >>Cool... So I think the task focus and the real effort move onto >>multiboot or in reality the PPC variant of it and the boot process of >>the kernel, everything up until the VM/HAT init (Guy is working on >>that). Can we get a higher level assesment of the scope of that effort >>or specifically what attributes our new multiboot will need. For example >>what BOP calls are made from it, if any? Removal of the x86 BIOS call. I >>know Jan will get back to us with some other boot details but what else >>do we need to get answers on with this. Thanks >> >> > >Err, it was my impression that you don't really need multiboot at all, just >need to download the files via tftp and boot them. But then i am not sure of >what exactly multiboot is supposed to be, didn't get the straight of this. > >Friendly, > >Sven Luther > > >
