On Wednesday 22 November 2006 19:58, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > I think he's referring to the "architecture-specific" tags (which are > currently not fleshed out in the spec). There are different sections for > x86 and x86-64, and it is a good question about when each is used. > > I'm really not sure what would be different about the two sets, but if > there are differences, the ELF class seems like a reasonable way to > decide which to use.
No difference, in my opinion. GRUB never activate 64-bit mode, and the firmware behaves exactly in the same way. Thus we don't need to pass different tags. Briefly, i386 and x86_64 are treated identically in the Multiboot Specification. I wrote some notes about x86_64, only because I had to make it clear how to initialize additional registers before passing the control to a kernel. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
