[coreboot] Multiboot table help

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Thu May 14 20:33:41 CEST 2009


On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:17:48AM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> Robert,
> 
> Is there anything specific that I need to know with respect to where
> the Multiboot table ends up?  If you could give me memory ranges that
> are acceptable, that would be great.  Should it be in the high tables
> area as well?

You shouldn't rely on any specific location, the loader only garantees that
%ebx points to the MBI, see:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.html#Boot-information-format

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