Re: Kernel section info.

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Kurt Skauen <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Kernel section info.
Date: 01 Nov 2000 11:40:49 +0100

> Is there any plans for implementing this? And if so, is there an
> estimate for when it might be done?

  Of course, the plan exists, as GRUB should follow the
specification. But AFAIK, nobody works on this for now.

> Maybe it whould be a good idea to have this defined a bit more rigid?
> Forcing the current layout might be a bit to strict, but at least
> define that the boot-module list should be sorted on module locations
> whould IMHO be a good idea. That whould make it much easyer to avoid
> trashing the modules before proper memory managment is initialized.
> And it whould be much easyer to implement this in the boot loader than
> to sort it later in the kernel.

  Maybe, but IMO, it would be much easier for OS writers to let a boot
loader locate modules appropriately, because they wouldn't have to be
worried about the locations any longer. I know that there are some
people who don't like to add another format into Multiboot, but I'll
add this in the future, because you won't have to use the format, if
you don't like it.

Okuji