Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] multiboot: load elf sections and section headers

[Anatol Pomozov]

Hello

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Anatol Pomozov
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 2:36 AM, Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Am 18.10.2017 um 19:22 hat Anatol Pomozov geschrieben:
>>> Hello qemu-devs,
>>>
>>> This patchset has been posted a while ago. I would like to move
>>> forward with it and look at the next task (e.g. multiboot2 support in
>>> QEMU). Who is the multiboot code maintainer who can help to review
>>> this patchset and give go/no-go answer?
>>
>> I think that's exactly your problem, there is nobody who feels
>> responsible for Multiboot support. Officially, it is part of the PC/x86
>> subsystems:
>
> In this case I would like to become the official Qemu/Multiboot
> maintainer. I do development related to x86 osdev and actively use
> qemu for my projects. I am interested in having a feature-rich and
> robust Multiboot implementation.

It is very unfortunate to see lack of interest in improving
qemu/multiboot functionality. I guess my best option for now is to
avoid using qemu multiboot implementation and use grub instead.