Re: multiboot2: kernel->GRUB communication

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 09:36 +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> Quoting Hollis Blanchard <address@hidden>:
> 
> > Right now the multiboot2 spec calls for bits to be set in the kernel
> > image to indicate to GRUB that various features are required or
> > requested.
> >
> > I'm trying to come up with a cleaner way. I find all these bits very
> > confusing, actually, and I think it would be more clear if we had
> > something like this instead:
> >
> > [... multiboot header ...]
> > .ascii "header_addr: 0xf00"
> > .ascii "load_addr: 0x0"
> > .ascii ...
> > (Actually, is it even worth supporting a.out at this point? This
> > particular example may be obsolete.)
> I am not a big fan of having ascii addresses because it is difficult to
> generate them from as and almost impossible from ld.

OK, good point.

-Hollis