Re: Multiboot specification for PowerPC

[Marco Gerards]

Peter Bruin <address@hidden> writes:

>> > 2004-08-02  Peter Bruin  <address@hidden>
>> >
>> >    * loader/powerpc/ieee1275/linux.c (grub_load_linux): Remove
>> >    superfluous checks for validity of ELF header.
>> 
>> Why do you want to remove these checks?
>
> They don't break anything (yes, I know, if it ain't broke don't fix it...), 
> but
> they are never executed, because if the ELF header is invalid this is already
> detected in the first if-statement:

Ok.  Well, I just copied the ELF loader from the other loaders of the
PC.  We just have to write a more generic ELF loader so this can be
fixed, I guess.

BTW. next we can better discuss about GRUB 2 on grub-devel.

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Marco