On Jan 29, 2008 5:14 PM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Jan 29, 2008 4:48 PM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > On Jan 28, 2008 5:11 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:10:42AM +0800, Bean wrote: > >> >> > > > > > >> >> > > > > How FreeBSD-specific is this? Will the same module apply to > >> >> > > > > other a.out > >> >> > > > > binaries ? (I ask since you gave it a generic name) > >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > it's an old format of the unix system: > >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.out > >> >> > > > >> >> > > I know.. I was referring to your loader. > >> >> > > >> >> > it should be generic, but i only test it using the loader from > >> >> > freebsd. > >> >> > >> >> In that case, I'd suggest putting it directly in loader/ (without > >> >> i386/pc/). > >> >> > >> >> Moving files on CVS is a PITA :-/ > >> > > >> > ok, here is the new patch. > >> > >> It would be nice if a.out support could be shared so it can be used > >> for multiboot as well. > > > > you mean adding it to the multiboot module ? > > The multiboot standard supports a.out. It would be nice if it was > also capable of a.out. So this code can somehow be shared, like ELF > support is shared now.
but it doesn't have the multiboot header, or the header is not necessary in multiboot 2 ? btw, where can i find spec on multiboot 2 ? -- Bean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
