On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:37:11PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Hello. I'm implementing video part of multiboot specification. > Currently the only defined interface is for providing VBE info. I > propose following way to set fields if video is non VBE: > vbe_control_info=0xffffffff > When vbe_control_info is set to 0xffffffff all VBE-specific fields are invalid > vbe_mode set to 0xffff > vbe_interface_seg=0xffff > vbe_interface_off=0xffff > vbe_interface_len=0xff > vbe_mode_info points to structure similar to vbe_mode_info but with > all vbe-specific fields set to zero. Remaining (valid) fields are > (full structur is in include/grub/i386/pc/vbe.h)
This seems like one of these cases in which legacy gets in the way. Why don't we just replace the legacy structure with something that doesn't need dummy fields? -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
