Hello, I resurrect this thread because of the recent developement in
preboot, mmap and drivemap this subject becomes very actual
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Bean wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The traditional memory is quite small, and is used by real mode apps.
> By moving grub2 kernel to upper memory,
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 oper
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:15:33PM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> What is the conclusion of this thread? is this idea still explored?
>
>
> Robert Millan wrote:
> >
> >The first concern that comes to mind is how would GRUB coexist with the
> >payload area which precisely starts at 0x1
Hi,
What is the conclusion of this thread? is this idea still explored?
Robert Millan wrote:
The first concern that comes to mind is how would GRUB coexist with the
payload area which precisely starts at 0x10. But I expect we'd face
many unexpected issues.
Does this mean, GRUB needs
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:15:35PM +0800, Bean wrote:
>>
>> gcc hello.c -o hello -lgrub2
>
> Ah, what I meant about linking was to make it easy to link external code into
> GRUB modules. Standalone executables sound more o
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:15:35PM +0800, Bean wrote:
>
> gcc hello.c -o hello -lgrub2
Ah, what I meant about linking was to make it easy to link external code into
GRUB modules. Standalone executables sound more overkill to me.
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Robert Millan
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:15:35PM +0800, Bean wrote:
>
> Speaking of library, I think we can provide a dynamic library for core
> grub2 function. Apps written properly can be executed in both native
> os and grub2. For example:
>
> int main()
> {
> grub_printf ("Hello world\n");
> return 0;
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 07:15:43PM +0800, Bean wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The traditional memory is quite small, and is used by real mode apps.
>> By moving grub2 kernel to upper memory, it's possible to keep it after
>> dos start
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 07:15:43PM +0800, Bean wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The traditional memory is quite small, and is used by real mode apps.
> By moving grub2 kernel to upper memory, it's possible to keep it after
> dos started, and we can invoke grub2 service using interrupts. One
> important usage is t
