Re: Switching multiboot2 to tagged

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

Bogdan wrote:
> Sorry for the top-down reply, Yahoo! is stupid like that. Anyway, I saw a 
> firmware tag somewhere in a patch. What happened to that?
>
>   
It's not in current multiboot2. It had few problems like usage of memory
map for some of firmware calls. Please use new thread per idea to
discuss ammendments.
> Cheers,
> Bogdan
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden>
> To: The development of GRUB 2 <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sun, March 28, 2010 3:41:57 PM
> Subject: Switching multiboot2 to tagged
>
> Hello, all. As nobody voiced any opposition to moving to tagged
> multiboot it's done. Spec is available at
> http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/branches/multiboot2/
> and implementation is already in grub2 mainline (as multiboot2 command).
> To the best of my knowledge all fields are properly aligned and the
> whole is quite portable except "machine state" section which will have
> to be rewritten for every architecture. If you're interested in seeing
> multiboot2 spec on your favorite (or non-fvorite) ISA feel free to
> propose ammendments.
> Some of information which seems deprecated in multiboot1 wasn't carried
> over to tagged version. If you disagree about their deprecation feel
> free to propose ammendments. They weren't removed because of being
> considered harmful but because updating them seemed like a waste of time.
> Also I'm aware that at least some people want more tags. Feel free to
> propose new ones.
> In short all ammendment ideas are welcome.
>
>   


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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