Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Add multiboot support (x86) v2

[Alexander Graf]

On 18.06.2009, at 14:17, François Revol wrote:

> > François Revol schrieb:
> > > > Why would an OS want to parse multiboot structures but not
> > > > implement
> > > > proper multiboot support? I mean, this really isn't anything
> > > > complicated. When you have enabled it to understand multiboot
> > > > structures
> > > > you are only missing a handful of bytes for the multiboot header.
> > > >
> > > > What is it that you need to do differently for Haiku?
> > >
> > > Because Haiku has its own second stage loader, which requires the
> > > BIOS
> > > to locate the kernel and module in a BFS partition which grub
> > > doesn't
> > > implement btw.
> >
> > That makes sense on real hardware, of course. But for -kernel you
> > don't
> > need a file system to read the kernel from.
>
> Except that wouldn't be the actual kernel passed but the 2nd stage.
> And having to pass the kernel in a tgz outside the BFS image makes it
> more complex to set up.

I don't see why you need a tgz file. Multiboot can pass multiple  
modules. Just use -initrd foo,bar,xxx

Alex