Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 20:19:14 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= <phcoder@gmail.com> To: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> Cc: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Multiboot2 drafting Message-ID: <4BFAC322.7070905@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100514020055.GB89230@duncan.reilly.home> References: <4BE98FB5.3060906@gmail.com> <20100514020055.GB89230@duncan.reilly.home>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Andrew Reilly wrote: > Hi there, > > I know next to nothing about GRUB, and have not yet read the > multiboot spec, but I wonder if you could comment on how or > whether this is related to either the Open Firmware Device Tree > or the Flattened Device Tree used in various embedded OS ports. > It would be cool if there were some convergence going on... > > I've looked into it and found good and bad things. Good: -represents the info needed to OS. It's something definitely good and goes in direction we need Bad: -it basically has all the history ballast of OpenFirmware. OFW is supposed to be system-independent but in fact there is a multitude of implementation with various degrees of compatibility. Same goes for device trees. The same information is present in different places with lots of special cases. Many of fields are actually useless variant selectors -it uses string identifiers instead of magic numbers. This makes it more difficult to parse -the most useful information is coming at the leaves and interpretation depends on whole path. It lacks aspects of complete boot protocol. I think it needs some cleanup. I would be interested in converging simplified and cleaned up version of device tree into multiboot2 > Cheers, > > -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iF4EAREKAAYFAkv6wy0ACgkQNak7dOguQgl+zgD9Hm5Z7Bm5qmcpi2MmHE1njJ4A sI+D0/Ge2LHy2xDzC6EBAJF3yvAiYiR/ub9mpb5qEhQ8Ne/fScMGdRJ/QBD8nWA/ =TjLM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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