Re: multiboot for PowerPC

[Andrei E. Warkentin]

On 13.10.2006, at 15:55, Hollis Blanchard wrote:

> 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.

Ah okay, so just store the OF entry pointer or EFI system table with  
key-value. Okay. That makes sense.

> > Slightly OT, but has any work been done to make Multiboot ia32/x64
> > EFI-friendly?
>
> Should be the same situation I guess.
>
> -Hollis
>
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