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Re: vesafb terminal for testing.


From: Yoshinori K. Okuji
Subject: Re: vesafb terminal for testing.
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:19:29 +0200
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On Sunday 14 August 2005 23:48, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> As far I know, GRUB 2 doesn't support dynamic loading of function entry
> points, instead there are only two predefined entry points that can be
> called from modules so there has to be some interface for those if they
> are not implemented in kernel level. And it would be bad to duplicate
> that code in several places.

Nope. GRUB 2 supports real dynamic loading. Entry points are used only when we 
want to allow symbols to be missing. So you need to implement code in the 
kernel only if it requires real mode or it is a critical function.

Okuji




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