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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. |
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| disk | ||
| font | ||
| fs | ||
| hello | ||
| include | ||
| io | ||
| kern | ||
| loader | ||
| normal | ||
| partmap | ||
| term | ||
| util | ||
| video | ||
| .cvsignore | ||
| AUTHORS | ||
| COPYING | ||
| ChangeLog | ||
| DISTLIST | ||
| INSTALL | ||
| Makefile.in | ||
| NEWS | ||
| README | ||
| THANKS | ||
| TODO | ||
| aclocal.m4 | ||
| autogen.sh | ||
| config.guess | ||
| config.h.in | ||
| config.sub | ||
| configure | ||
| configure.ac | ||
| gencmdlist.sh | ||
| gendistlist.sh | ||
| genfslist.sh | ||
| geninit.sh | ||
| geninitheader.sh | ||
| genkernsyms.sh.in | ||
| genmk.rb | ||
| genmoddep.awk | ||
| genmodsrc.sh | ||
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| install-sh | ||
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README
This is GRUB 2, the second version of the GRand Unified Bootloader. GRUB 2 is rewritten from scratch to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more robust, more powerful, and more portable. See the file NEWS for a description of recent changes to GRUB 2. See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install the GRUB 2 data and program files. Please visit the official web page of GRUB 2, for more information. The URL is <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html>. For now, there is not much documentation yet. Please look at the GRUB Wiki <http://grub.enbug.org> for testing procedures.