Re: Update Multiboot spec

[James Buchanan]

Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> In principle, we do not want to use the Multiboot Specification as helper 
> functions. It is a boot protocol, but not an OS library. For example, CPUID 
> is not necessarily useful to probe in a boot loader, since operating systems 
> can probe it after the control is passed. There is no reason why a boot 
> loader must handle it.
> The most important goal of the next version of Multiboot Specification is 
> portability. There are some ideas about this, but not decided yet. I hope you 
> could help this.
You're right -- I got carried away there.  I looked at GRUB's own 
support code and forgot to separate the two.
I'd be glad to help if I can.  I'm working on some GRUB-2 code at the 
moment, studying it and trying to figure out some video card stuff.
James