Re: multiboot2: remove "a.out kludge" requirement

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 15:27 -0600, Andrei E. Warkentin wrote:
> How about having a custom e_type for ELF images booted by GRUB?
> Something in the range between ET_LOOS and ET_HIOS (the OS specific
> types). This way one could avoid the Multiboot header in ELF, as the
> file would itself would identify self as GRUB-bootable or not. 

Why would we need a custom e_type? We know how to load ELF; we can
already omit the multiboot header.

Are you worried about a user accidentally running "multiboot /bin/ls"?
I'm not... :)

> Also...
> I am not familiar with the module architecture in GRUB2 (whether mods
> are ET_REL or ET_DYN), but having a custom type for those would sure
> simplify those code paths too. 

How would it simplify the code?

(Modules are ET_REL, for the record.)

-Hollis