Re: Update Multiboot spec

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Jul 9, 2005, at 12:19 AM, Cyril Plisko wrote:

> Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > On Friday 08 July 2005 08:57, James Buchanan wrote:
> > > 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.
> > I think we need to list up what information must be passed by a boot 
> > loader on every architecture and each architecture first. I made two 
> > new pages on the wiki:
> > http://www.autistici.org/grub/moin.cgi/MultibootRequirements
> > http://www.autistici.org/grub/moin.cgi/MultibootIdeas
> > Feel free to edit these pages.
> > I think some survey is required. It would be worth checking how 
> > existing systems deal with each architecture (such as Linux, NetBSD 
> > and L4KA).
>
> I am not sure how applicable it is here, but when I read about tags
> I immediately thought of IEEE1212 directory format. Anyone think
> that can be useful here ?

I haven't heard of IEEE 1212, and of course I can't read it without 
paying.

The tagged-structure approach is a very good idea here.

-Hollis