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robertmh
c32ee8c9a8 2008-11-07 Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
* include/multiboot2.h (struct multiboot_header): Add `flags' member as
        per specification.
        * loader/multiboot2.c (grub_multiboot2): Fix Multiboot2 header check.
        * loader/multiboot_loader.c (find_multi_boot2_header): New function
        (based on find_multi_boot1_header).
        (grub_rescue_cmd_multiboot_loader): Check for Multiboot2 header,
        using find_multi_boot2_header(), and abort if neither Multiboot or
        Multiboot headers were found.
2008-11-07 19:53:25 +00:00
proski
d89b76343e 2008-07-01 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
* include/multiboot2.h (struct multiboot_tag_module): Use char,
	not unsigned char.  This fixes warnings and is consistent with
	other tags.
2008-07-02 01:17:43 +00:00
jerone
e5dfe7775a 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.
2007-07-25 00:44:03 +00:00