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Re: [PATCH] enable multiboot2 loader on i386-ieee1275
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Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] enable multiboot2 loader on i386-ieee1275 |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:57:58 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:08:08AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > This makes multiboot2 work on i386-ieee1275. Tested both with elf32 and
> > elf64 images.
>
> It looks ok to me.
Ok, committed.
> > In case of elf32 OFW images, they won't work because EAX is used for
> > multiboot
> > information and can't hold the needed pointer to OFW callback interface.
> > See
> > the comment I added to the draft:
> >
> >
> > http://grub.enbug.org/MultibootDraft#head-84d7c3521d0235f08f7fffaf35e2d06ced2f0a68
>
> Can't you use a tag for the pointer?
We can, but that's not useful. If we can't make them compatible, I find it
more feasible to write a separate loader for OFW images.
Though I don't see why not do it. The boot abi is already compatible on
PowerPC:
http://grub.enbug.org/MultibootDraft#head-198f9346038a3782a8263de281dd9cf2eb2759a8
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Robert Millan
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- [PATCH] enable multiboot2 loader on i386-ieee1275, Robert Millan, 2008/01/20
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- Re: [PATCH] enable multiboot2 loader on i386-ieee1275, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] enable multiboot2 loader on i386-ieee1275,
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- Re: [PATCH] enable multiboot2 loader on i386-ieee1275, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] enable multiboot2 loader on i386-ieee1275, Robert Millan, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] enable multiboot2 loader on i386-ieee1275, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] enable multiboot2 loader on i386-ieee1275, Robert Millan, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] enable multiboot2 loader on i386-ieee1275, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/23