grub/kern
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
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efi 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
i386 This patch is to introduce multiboot 2 loading capabilities to grub2 2007-07-25 00:44:03 +00:00
ieee1275 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
powerpc 2007-07-22 Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> 2007-07-22 09:16:51 +00:00
sparc64 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
device.c 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
disk.c 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
dl.c 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
elf.c 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
env.c 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
err.c 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
file.c 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
fs.c 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
loader.c 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
main.c 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
misc.c 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
mm.c 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
parser.c 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
partition.c 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
rescue.c 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
term.c 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00