On 17.06.2011 18:11, Pierre-Nicolas Clauss wrote: > Hi folks, > > I subscribed to this list in order to share with you a humble > contribution of mine to grub. > > As an OS developer enthusiastic, I needed to load a file to memory at > a given specific address. While such a functionality would be a toy for loader developpers, it's completely useless for the end users. If the user has to know any single address or any single address figures in grub.cfg it's automatically a bad design. Also while it would be possible to write a loader in scripts using such kind of commands it's simply a wrong place for it. Loaders have to be written in C. Also people who really need such kind of functionality (devs) can quickly add such a kludge to the loader they are currently developping. As for the user the syntax has to be sth like loader_name <file> <args> This allows for a much higher flexibility, portability and future-proof. > No command in grub 1.99 was fitting my needs (as my file as no > semantic known to grub: it's not a module, it's not an initrd, it's > not a multiboot kernel either), so I developed my own module. > What is it then? I'm willing to consider adding new loading as long as they are sane and make sense. > Please find included the source code of this module. For now, I've > added a copyright notice with my name and a mention to the GPLv3, but > I'm willing to share the source under GPLv3+ and/or hand over my > copyright rights to the GNU project if needed. > Also note that I wrote this module based on what I understand from > grub after reading its source, so please forgive me if I used the > wrong method. > > Cheers, > > Pierre-Nicolas "pini" Clauss > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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