Re: multiboot for PowerPC

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 15:06 -0500, Andrei E. Warkentin wrote:
> I just stalk this mailing list, but I think it'd be great to turn the
> Multiboot specification less PC BIOS-centric. The Multiboot spec
> exposes various legacy structures for the x86 PC. How do you intend to
> work in platform specifics? Just expose the OF interface, or clone the
> device tree? What about non-OF systems?

Have you read the wiki page? http://grub.enbug.org/MultibootDraft

I don't intend to put any Open Firmware information into the multiboot
structure, since OF will still be live when the OS is executed.

> Slightly OT, but has any work been done to make Multiboot ia32/x64
> EFI-friendly?

Should be the same situation I guess.

-Hollis