Re: [PATCH] decouple mmap parsing and implement Multiboot mmap in the loader

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 07:52:59PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> >  #include <grub/types.h>
> >  #include <grub/symbol.h>
> > +#include <grub/multiboot.h>        /* For struct grub_mmap_entry, which is 
> > also
> > +                              needed by Multiboot.  */
> 
> Isn't it better to split the header file?  This seems like a hack.

The definition is part of the Multiboot spec, so it really needs to be present
in multiboot.h.

We could also define it separately as grub_mmap_entry in multiboot.h and keep
the grub_machine_mmap_entry definition in pc/init.h.  Then other arches could
have their own grub_machine_mmap_entry variant which _does_ differ from
grub_mmap_entry (like coreboot).

What do you think?
  
> > Index: loader/i386/pc/multiboot.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- loader/i386/pc/multiboot.c      (revision 1802)
> > +++ loader/i386/pc/multiboot.c      (working copy)
> > @@ -78,14 +78,60 @@
> >        grub_free ((void *) mbi->cmdline);
> >        grub_free (mbi);
> >      }
> > -
> > -
> > +  
> 
> Hm? :-)

Some minor janitor work ;-)

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