On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 03:00:42PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 20:17 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I ported GRUB to QEMU. It's mostly based on the coreboot port, with the > > main difference being that we include code to transition from i8086 mode, > > an i386 firmware entry point and produce raw code images instead of ELF. > > That's great news! Eventually, it would be nice to have support for > many other platforms supported by qemu, such as arm and mips.
Sure! I hope it's going to be easier for arm and mips. For i386 GRUB had to jump between FOUR areas of code in memory before it can call grub_main() (this is what happens after 30 years of backward compatibility kludges...) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
