On Wednesday 15 November 2006 19:42, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > If the operating system kernel is stupid enough to require as special > > video mode the user should be aware of that and setup the bootloader > > so that it is in that mode before the kernel is started. > > The only information in the multiboot header is a) the load addresses > for a.out and "other" formats, and b) the VGA info. > > We could certainly drop the VGA info.
No. The problem is that a kernel cannot initialize VESA in protected mode in some BIOSes. If you need more info, please dig into the archive of bug-grub. > I don't think it would be a big deal to drop a.out as well; I don't know > of any modern OS that uses these, and anyways kernel builds are special. > However (and I don't know how reasonable this is), Mac OS X's toolchain > will build only Mach-O binaries, so one would be unable to build a > kernel that GRUB could load. We could require a Mach-O loader in that > case, but I will admit that the "a.out hack" multiboot header fields > simplify this problem. Never drop the a.out kludge. This flexibility is one of the advantages in Multiboot. Note that GRUB itself uses this feature. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
