On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> I've added a new item into the Multiboot information structure as
> suggested before.
>[...]
> If you think anything should be changed, let me know, before I will
> publish this modified version as the Multiboot Specification 0.7.
The drive information looks good.
I sent a big message to the list a while ago describing some other
possible additions to the Multiboot information; some of them were:
APM BIOS information (less useful these days now that ACPI is taking over)
MCA bus feature table (also not very useful now)
Flag to indicate whether a PS/2 mouse is present
(All of those are read by Linux in its real-mode setup.S code - fairly
easy to snatch)
It might also be useful to add a string describing the bootloader, so
that the operating system can log it.
Steve Early
