On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:15:33PM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote:
>>
>> Since payload(s) needs to be present at their precise positions only
>> after the boot command, we can always deterministically /schedule/
>> memmove operation to be executed as part of boot command.
>>
>> Since boot command is the last command executed by GRUB (correct me if
>> not), we can overwrite any GRUB code/data at that point.  This also
>> needs boot command to exist in low memory.
>
> This is already done.  See grub_multiboot_{forward,backward}_relocator
> variables and how they're used in the multiboot loader.
>

OK, fine :-)


-- 
bvk-chaitanya


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