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Re: [PATCH] enable multiboot2 loader on i386-ieee1275


From: Marco Gerards
Subject: Re: [PATCH] enable multiboot2 loader on i386-ieee1275
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:08:08 +0100
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Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:

> This makes multiboot2 work on i386-ieee1275.  Tested both with elf32 and
> elf64 images.

It looks ok to me.

> In case of elf32 OFW images, they won't work because EAX is used for multiboot
> information and can't hold the needed pointer to OFW callback interface.  See
> the comment I added to the draft:
>
>   
> http://grub.enbug.org/MultibootDraft#head-84d7c3521d0235f08f7fffaf35e2d06ced2f0a68

Can't you use a tag for the pointer?

--
Marco





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