Joe Bonasera wrote:
>
> > ... However I couldn't go any further. Any hints? For once, from the usual
> > /platform/.../unix grub
> > menu.lst entries I deduce that unix is the os kernel to be loaded by grub,
> > but as dboot is what grub
> > really understands, then dboot must somehow be embedded into unix, right?
>
> Yes - The magic mostly happens from the usr/src/uts/i86pc/unix Makefile --
>
> $(DBOOT_O): $(DBOOT_BIN)
> @echo " .data" > $(DBOOT_S)
> @echo " .globl dboot_image" >> $(DBOOT_S)
> @echo "dboot_image:" >> $(DBOOT_S)
> $(ELFEXTRACT) $(DBOOT_BIN) >> $(DBOOT_S)
> $(COMPILE.s) -o $(DBOOT_O) $(DBOOT_S)
Ahhgllrrr... sorry for the offtopic rant...
... but is anyone interested to sponsor a patch to cleanup such things,
e.g. turn the code above into
-- snip --
@ ( echo " .data" \
echo " .globl dboot_image" \
echo "dboot_image:" \
) > "$(DBOOT_S)"
$(ELFEXTRACT) $(DBOOT_BIN)
-- snip --
, please (I've saw such stuff several times in OS/Net (see
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/shell-discuss/2007-June/000465.html
why the construct above is... uhm... not nice... ;-( )) ?
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Bye,
Roland
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