On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:08:08AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This makes multiboot2 work on i386-ieee1275. Tested both with elf32 and > > elf64 images. > > It looks ok to me.
Ok, committed. > > In case of elf32 OFW images, they won't work because EAX is used for > > multiboot > > information and can't hold the needed pointer to OFW callback interface. > > See > > the comment I added to the draft: > > > > > > http://grub.enbug.org/MultibootDraft#head-84d7c3521d0235f08f7fffaf35e2d06ced2f0a68 > > Can't you use a tag for the pointer? We can, but that's not useful. If we can't make them compatible, I find it more feasible to write a separate loader for OFW images. Though I don't see why not do it. The boot abi is already compatible on PowerPC: http://grub.enbug.org/MultibootDraft#head-198f9346038a3782a8263de281dd9cf2eb2759a8 -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
