Re: my plan for Multiboot 2

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:16:11PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko 
wrote:
> Bogdan wrote:
> > Is it just me or does this whole thing on abandoning Multiboot 2 seem like 
> > a terrible idea? (That's a retorical question since I've already talked to 
> > several people in the OSDev community about it.) The only reason why people 
> > still use Multiboot is because it's the best we've got. It's not flexible 
> > and it's way behind the needs of current OSes.
> >
> >   
> It's a misunderstanding. We don't abandon multiboot2. The draft we want
> to discard isn't much better than multiboot1. But we will develop
> multiboot1 in a way to become multiboot2 and to correspond to the need
> of OSes.

Definitely.  We're driven by the needs of OS kernel developers.  We're not
going to let legacy junk get in the way.

-- 
Robert Millan

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