On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 09:00:05PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/16/17 15:27, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > That is obvious. Do you think that Multiboot/Multiboot2 protocols are
> > substantially suboptimal?
>
> Yes. They push a lot of things into the bootloader for no good reason,
I have not se
On 02/16/17 15:27, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>
> That is obvious. Do you think that Multiboot/Multiboot2 protocols are
> substantially suboptimal?
>
Yes. They push a lot of things into the bootloader for no good reason,
thus tying the kernel's hands and making the whole boot process more
fragile.
It
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:58:37PM -0800, h...@zytor.com wrote:
[...]
> Multiboot has a fundamentally broken assumption, which is to do certain work
Just to be precise. We are talking about Multiboot2 here.
> for the kernel in the bootloader. This is fundamentally a bad idea, because
Why it is
On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 17:42 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> On 15/02/2017 15:41, Chao Peng wrote:
> >
> > Multiboot specification
> > (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/doc/multiboot.texi?h=mul
> > tiboot2)
> > is an open standard that provides kernels with a uniform way to be boote
> > Just something to consider, provided the issues with multiboot get
> > resolved:
> >
> > If you want to boot Xen you actually use the multiboot protocol, the
> > last PVH
> > boot patches had borrowed ideas from Multiboot to add an entry to
> > Linux, only
> > it was Xen'ified. What would be
On February 15, 2017 12:13:36 PM PST, "Luis R. Rodriguez"
wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:12:07AM -0800, h...@zytor.com wrote:
>> On February 15, 2017 6:41:56 AM PST, Chao Peng
> wrote:
>> >Multiboot specification
>>
>>(http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/doc/multiboot.texi?h=multib
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:12:07AM -0800, h...@zytor.com wrote:
> On February 15, 2017 6:41:56 AM PST, Chao Peng
> wrote:
> >Multiboot specification
> >(http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/doc/multiboot.texi?h=multiboot2)
> >is an open standard that provides kernels with a uniform way
On February 15, 2017 6:41:56 AM PST, Chao Peng
wrote:
>Multiboot specification
>(http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/doc/multiboot.texi?h=multiboot2)
>is an open standard that provides kernels with a uniform way to be
>booted
>by multiboot-compliant bootloaders (like grub).
>
>This pat
On 15/02/2017 15:41, Chao Peng wrote:
> Multiboot specification
> (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/doc/multiboot.texi?h=multiboot2)
> is an open standard that provides kernels with a uniform way to be booted
> by multiboot-compliant bootloaders (like grub).
>
> This patch is tryi
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