Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Tuesday 14 November 2006 02:16, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> I've placed a generic multiboot.h directly into include/ (not in the
> grub subdirectory), since it it suitable for using in kernels
> independently of GRUB. As for the license, I believe that
> include/multiboot.h should NOT be GPL, to allow it to be used directly
> for non-GPL operating systems like the BSDs.

GRUB is entirely licensed under GPL. Please don't make an exception.

> Actually, we probably want to leave the old x86-only multiboot loader
> around to allow people to boot multiboot1 kernels... how should we name
> the two?

This is what I had in mind: one multiboot module should provide support for 
both. Multiboot Specification version 2 is (and must be) a superset of 
features found in version 0.x. So we should implement support version 2 
first, and "translate" Multiboot information if a kernel is for version 0.x.

Thanks,
Okuji