Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Add multiboot 2 capabilities

[Hollis Blanchard]

On 7/25/07, Stefan Reinauer <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Marco Gerards <address@hidden> [070725 11:53]:
> > "Jerone Young" <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > I'm going to submit a new patch shortly. I'll also check it in. So it
> > > will not suffer from code rot :-) Need to make sure some stuff works
> > > on ppc then it'll be in. Probably tonight or tomorrow.
> >
> > Great to have multiboot2!  Having multiboot2 on the PPC was actually
> > the main reason I started working on GRUB 2 in the first place.
> >
> > You didn't leave me much time to go over it ;-).  Do you want me to
> > review it so you can fix up the GCS issues in CVS or did you take care
> > of these issues already? :-)
>
> Will grub2 still be able to boot multiboot(1) binaries on x86?

Yes, it supported this before the multiboot2 commit, and it still
supports it now. In fact Jerone did work to make it all
user-invisible: the same "multiboot" command will automatically select
the appropriate loader type (either mb1 or mb2), and the same "module"
command will behave according to the multiboot kernel type.

-Hollis