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Re: some multiboot2 comments


From: Yoshinori K. Okuji
Subject: Re: some multiboot2 comments
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:06:35 +0200
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On Friday 27 October 2006 07:37, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > Some platform may need it. On EFI the OS can't get the memmap from EFI
> > because it is too late.
>
> OK. In that case we're still keeping with the philosophy of only passing
> information to the kernel that it can't obtain itself.

However, the definition of a memory map varies from architecture to 
architecture, so it might be better to put this tag to architecture-specific 
sections, so that we can redefine the format per architecture.

Okuji




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