Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 22:33 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> 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.

An exception is exactly what I am proposing. What is your objection?

> > 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.

I'm not sure "translation" makes sense, but we can probably share a lot
of the code.

-Hollis