Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 03:00:42PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 20:17 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I ported GRUB to QEMU.  It's mostly based on the coreboot port, with the
> > main difference being that we include code to transition from i8086 mode,
> > an i386 firmware entry point and produce raw code images instead of ELF.
> 
> That's great news!  Eventually, it would be nice to have support for
> many other platforms supported by qemu, such as arm and mips.

Sure!  I hope it's going to be easier for arm and mips.  For i386 GRUB had
to jump between FOUR areas of code in memory before it can call grub_main()

(this is what happens after 30 years of backward compatibility kludges...)

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