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


From: Tristan Gingold
Subject: Re: multiboot2: remove "a.out kludge" requirement
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:58:42 +0100
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On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 01:31:17PM -0600, Andrei E. Warkentin wrote:
> Well, couldn't the compressed .text/.rdata be stored in an ELF  
> section itself?
Do you have a more complex idea? :-)

For ia64, we don't have all the x86 issues: grub must just be able to load
an ELF file (as well as modules) and to start it with the correct parameters.

In fact this discussion is more or less x86 specific, isn't it ?

Tristan.




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