On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 15:23 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:51:22PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > > If we are circumventing the standard Linux bootloader, perhaps we should > > communicate this to the Linux developers. > > This is not circumvention. We're using a 32-bit interface that's part of their > boot protocol specification (i.e. they promised not to break it). The only > caveat is that so far it's only used on EFI and on coreboot, it hasn't been > so widespread, and therefore not so widely tested yet.
I see. It looks like the x86_64 kernel has code for printing strings in 16-bit mode and in 64-bit mode, but not in 32-bit mode, in which we enter the kernel. So no easy fix, unfortunately. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
