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From: | James Buchanan |
Subject: | Re: Update Multiboot spec |
Date: | Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:57:24 +1000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) |
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
In principle, we do not want to use the Multiboot Specification as helper functions. It is a boot protocol, but not an OS library. For example, CPUID is not necessarily useful to probe in a boot loader, since operating systems can probe it after the control is passed. There is no reason why a boot loader must handle it.The most important goal of the next version of Multiboot Specification is portability. There are some ideas about this, but not decided yet. I hope you could help this.
You're right -- I got carried away there. I looked at GRUB's own support code and forgot to separate the two.
I'd be glad to help if I can. I'm working on some GRUB-2 code at the moment, studying it and trying to figure out some video card stuff.
James
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