Re: multiboot on EFI

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 21:57:55 Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:31:14PM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > On Saturday 28 March 2009 22:13:06 Robert Millan wrote:
> > > Do we need the memory map to be sorted?  AFAIK loadees can cope with
> > > unsorted maps fine;  is there an exception?
> >
> > As I wrote in the draft, a boot loader should sort the memory map. An OS
> > image must deal with an unsorted memory map, because the wording is
> > "should", but it is still user-friendly (especially for debugging).
>
> You mean the multiboot 2 draft?  Since this change is backward-compatible,
> is there any reason we want this in multiboot 2 but not in multiboot 1?

No.

> I don't like that the two diverge so much, it makes the implementation so
> much harder to maintain.  Right now the multiboot 2 loader is a complete
> bitrot.
>
> Can we merge this and similar backward-compatible changes into multiboot 1?

I agree.

Regards,
Okuji