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Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional
From: |
Hollis Blanchard |
Subject: |
Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:09:11 -0600 |
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 21:35 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Saturday 02 December 2006 17:18, Marco Gerards wrote:
> >> What is the problem with typing? I do not think this is really
> >> complex?
> >
> > Weird. It was _you_ who pointed out that specifying tags would be
> annoying on
> > the IRC...
>
> I am all for something that is simple. Initially it looked like
> Hollis' proposal was more complex, but IIRC he mentioned he wanted to
> work on making this easier to use. Isn't this what he did? Or did I
> misunderstand something? If someone (Hollis in this case) thinks I am
> wrong and comes with a good argumentation, I am always willing to
> change my opinion.
I already illustrated how easy it is:
MB_HEADER()
MB_START_TAGS()
MB_LOADADDR(0x1234)
MB_ENTRYADDR(0x1234)
MB_END_TAGS()
Please explain if you think this it too difficult.
Note: I refuse to believe that ORing flags into a .long is less complex.
-Hollis
- Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional, Marco Gerards, 2006/12/02
- Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional, Marco Gerards, 2006/12/04
- Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional,
Hollis Blanchard <=
- Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2006/12/05
- Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional, Hollis Blanchard, 2006/12/07
- Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2006/12/12
- Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional, Hollis Blanchard, 2006/12/12
- Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2006/12/13
- Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional, Marco Gerards, 2006/12/13