Re: SILO/GRUB coordination

[Thierry Laronde]

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:24:55AM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
> 
> >>>>> Ben Collins writes:
> 
>  BC> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 04:26:14PM +0200, Niels M?ller wrote:
> 
>  >> The good thing about coordinating with GRUB would be to share the
>  >> code for reading filesystems, configuration files, UI, etc.
> 
> Agreed.  That would be the main thing merging with GRUB could offer,
> aside from a common name that we could use to increase interest in one
> anothers' projects.
> 

I think the idea is interesting, at least because this will force us to
organize clearly architecture dependent parts of the source and common
ones.

BTW, I have just read a note about a possibility to make, say, a CD
bootable on different architectures. The rule of the game is to remember
that instructions are only bit fields. So if, for example, on x86 a
given bit field means "jump to this location" and, on another platform,
doesn't mean anything problematic (the example given is that a jump on
x86 corresponds to the load of a register on Power PC), you can `cat'
different codes, the jump being made if we are on x86 (and the program
then actually jumps to x86 instructions), while if this is not x86 the code
continues to another instruction corresponding to the jump on another
platform etc...

But that's not really linked to the present thread ;)
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