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

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:08:08AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > This makes multiboot2 work on i386-ieee1275.  Tested both with elf32 and
> > elf64 images.
> 
> It looks ok to me.

Ok, committed.

> > 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?

We can, but that's not useful.  If we can't make them compatible, I find it
more feasible to write a separate loader for OFW images.

Though I don't see why not do it.  The boot abi is already compatible on
PowerPC:

  
http://grub.enbug.org/MultibootDraft#head-198f9346038a3782a8263de281dd9cf2eb2759a8

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