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This patch is to introduce multiboot 2 loading capabilities to grub2
authorjerone <jerone@localhost>
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:44:03 +0000 (00:44 +0000)
committerjerone <jerone@localhost>
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:44:03 +0000 (00:44 +0000)
commite5dfe7775a365ed946c3b96bd76d62f281d26435
tree97017eb2f77d057fa69b54816b848843d9f3c1f8
parentdaf0f0ba3e7432f9157e892c9319cd94678d5dce
This patch is to introduce multiboot 2 loading capabilities to grub2
for powerpc & i386-pc. This patch was more so started by Hollis
Blanchard getting multiboot 2 working for powerpc and I added to it
and cleaned it up.

One of the ideas with this patch is to keep everything under one
command for the user. So instead of having a "multiboot2" & "module2"
command, I created a proxy like mechanism so that you have only one
command for both multiboot 1 & 2 ... "multiboot". This is where
"loader/multiboot_loader.c" comes from. I could have integrated things
more but I figure the current approach will less likely break
anything.

So if your OS is multiboot 2 capable, the user would do the following
to load it up from a grub prompt:

grub> multiboot <location of kernel> <kernel args>
grub> module <some image> <multiboot tag> <image arguments>
grub> module <isome mage> <multiboot tag> <image arguments>
grub .....

The other thing that this patch does is it begins to make the
multiboot 1 code a bit more architecture agnostic so IF someone wanted
to implement it on another architecture they can.

A bit of file moving around and definition renaming is also apart of
this patch. I have also taken the time to make sure that it does not
break multiboot 1 loading on i386-pc. But mulitboot 2 may still need a
little more testing and work for i386-pc. Powerpc multiboot 2 has been
heavily tested and does work.
18 files changed:
ChangeLog
conf/i386-pc.rmk
conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rmk
include/grub/i386/pc/loader.h
include/grub/i386/pc/multiboot.h [deleted file]
include/grub/multiboot.h [new file with mode: 0644]
include/grub/multiboot2.h [new file with mode: 0644]
include/grub/multiboot_loader.h [new file with mode: 0644]
include/grub/powerpc/ieee1275/multiboot.h [deleted file]
include/multiboot.h [new file with mode: 0644]
include/multiboot2.h [new file with mode: 0644]
kern/i386/pc/startup.S
loader/i386/pc/multiboot.c
loader/i386/pc/multiboot2.c [new file with mode: 0644]
loader/multiboot2.c [new file with mode: 0644]
loader/multiboot_loader.c [new file with mode: 0644]
loader/multiboot_loader_normal.c [new file with mode: 0644]
loader/powerpc/ieee1275/multiboot2.c [new file with mode: 0644]