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Re: patch for PPC Old World Macintosh
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Jeroen Dekkers |
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Re: patch for PPC Old World Macintosh |
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Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:09:34 +0200 |
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At Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:48:05 +0200,
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
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> On Wednesday 01 September 2004 18:04, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > I see when you load multiboot ELF segments you require that they live
> > in the 1M+ unreserved region described above. What OSs use multiboot,
> > and are they all linked at 1MB or above?
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> I don't remember the implementation for GRUB 2, since it was written by
> Jeroen instead of me. So I cannot say anything about that.
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> There many operating systems based on Multiboot. Just search on the web.
> You can find GNU/Hurd, L4, AtheOS, and so on.
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> Normally OS images are linked to 1MB or above, although Multiboot
> Specification does not mention this.
The Multiboot loader just checks whether the ELF segments fit in the
space between grub_os_area_addr and
grub_os_area_addr+grub_os_area_size. It will give an error if it
doesn't fit.
Jeroen Dekkers