On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 11:19:27AM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
On 09/09/08 18:59 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
Hi,
I'm thinking that it'd be interesting for coreboot to have direct support for Multiboot, so that Multiboot kernels can be used directly without GRUB/FILO as middle man (somewhat like this thing you call "LAB").
When I brought this up on IRC, Patrick expressed concerns about size. I suppose the best would be to give users the option to provide either coreboot tables or Multiboot, whatever is needed for their payload, instead of adding both things unconditionally.
Nevertheless I don't expect the basic Multiboot support to be excessively big.
If this idea sounds fine, I could provide a patch for v3.
I support this idea unconditionally. I know the limitations and concerns about multiboot - but playing well with others is something we need to do a better job of.
Good :-). I'll get to work.
I don't suppose we could talk you into a v2 patch as well?
Maybe ;-). I do the v3 patch, and once we're done with it, I'll see how easy/hard it is to backport it, is that ok?
Thanks