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Re: about the boot command.


From: Marco Gerards
Subject: Re: about the boot command.
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:01:37 +0100
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袁源 <address@hidden> writes:

Hi,

> I have a question about the boot command after reading its
> implementation. Before the really boot function executes, the
> function grub_machine_fini() will be executed if
> grub_loader_noreturn is true. I don't know why. Why can't we just
> boot without grub_machine_fini() being executed ?

It's used to free claimed memory, restore the video mode, etc.  This
depends on the specific port.  Why do you want to remove this?

--
Marco





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