On Saturday 28 March 2009 22:13:06 Robert Millan wrote: > Do we need the memory map to be sorted? AFAIK loadees can cope with > unsorted maps fine; is there an exception?
As I wrote in the draft, a boot loader should sort the memory map. An OS image must deal with an unsorted memory map, because the wording is "should", but it is still user-friendly (especially for debugging). > > +#ifdef GRUB_MACHINE_PCBIOS > > + grub_stop_floppy (); > > +#endif > > grub_stop_floppy() doesn't do any BIOS-specific stuff. Wouldn't __i386__ > be more appropiate? This should be moved to an arch-specific finalization function. Honestly, I prefer that this is done by disk drivers automatically when unloading, but some people seem to like giving up unloading modules. Regards, Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
