Re: multiboot2: variable data size

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Saturday 25 November 2006 03:09, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 12:55 -0800, Joe Bonasera wrote:
> > If grub2 really needs to make the
> > format/content variant, I would much rather see it vary based on the
> > target OS type. Or better yet, just always use the larger size data
> > types/content - even for 32 bit booting.
>
> I agree; I think experience has shown that not changing the data size at
> all is the best solution. That will also simplify the GRUB
> implementation, and I will make that change (to code and spec) soon.

I disagree. Please don't make such a change. I'm not willing to make 
difference between i386 and x86_64 in the Multiboot Specification.

Okuji