Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 21:35 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Saturday 02 December 2006 17:18, Marco Gerards wrote:
> >> What is the problem with typing?  I do not think this is really
> >> complex?
> >
> > Weird. It was _you_ who pointed out that specifying tags would be
> annoying on 
> > the IRC...
> 
> I am all for something that is simple.  Initially it looked like
> Hollis' proposal was more complex, but IIRC he mentioned he wanted to
> work on making this easier to use.  Isn't this what he did?  Or did I
> misunderstand something?  If someone (Hollis in this case) thinks I am
> wrong and comes with a good argumentation, I am always willing to
> change my opinion.

I already illustrated how easy it is:
        MB_HEADER()
        MB_START_TAGS()
        MB_LOADADDR(0x1234)
        MB_ENTRYADDR(0x1234)
        MB_END_TAGS()

Please explain if you think this it too difficult.

Note: I refuse to believe that ORing flags into a .long is less complex.

-Hollis