--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - The multiboot standard for ppc... ¿What would be the better way to > extend it? ¿Should all the standard to be reorganized in order to > support more than one architecture?...
Please call it Multiboot Specification rather than Multiboot Standard. The name has been changed. How to extend it to PowerPC? That is a difficult question but quite interesting. There was an idea that could make the specification more extensible. Currently, it defines a big table which points to external memory regions, and uses bitfields to identify which members are valid. That's not good. Everytime you want to add new features, you would have to find a unused field and define new members, etc. So the idea was to make the Multiboot information a list of tagged items. Conceptually, like this: memory size: 16MB arguments: root=/dev/hd0s1 If we define the information this way, it is straightforward to define arch-specific tags and common tags. Then, a developer of an OS wouldn't have to change the bootstrap code very much. One question is that the current specification is widely used, so people might not want to migrate to a new version. Okuji _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
