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Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional


From: Yoshinori K. Okuji
Subject: Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:37:27 +0200
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On Tuesday 14 November 2006 23:58, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> I would like to make the in-kernel multiboot header optional. If it's an
> ELF file, we can load it, even if it doesn't have the header. We can
> also pass the address of the multiboot tags to its entry point (it can't
> hurt anything).

I prefer to keep a multiboot header, because GRUB may not detect an error that 
the offset of a multiboot header is beyond 8192 bytes.

Okuji




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