Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:37:11PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Hello. I'm implementing video part of multiboot specification.
> Currently the only defined interface is for providing VBE info. I
> propose following way to set fields if video is non VBE:
> vbe_control_info=0xffffffff
> When vbe_control_info is set to 0xffffffff all VBE-specific fields are invalid
> vbe_mode set to 0xffff
> vbe_interface_seg=0xffff
> vbe_interface_off=0xffff
> vbe_interface_len=0xff
> vbe_mode_info points to structure similar to vbe_mode_info but with
> all vbe-specific fields set to zero. Remaining (valid) fields are
> (full structur is in include/grub/i386/pc/vbe.h)

This seems like one of these cases in which legacy gets in the way.  Why
don't we just replace the legacy structure with something that doesn't need
dummy fields?

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Robert Millan

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