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Re: [PATCH] PXE support for grub2
From: |
Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] PXE support for grub2 |
Date: |
Sat, 2 Aug 2008 13:49:59 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 07:20:31PM +0800, Bean wrote:
> >> --- a/kern/i386/pc/startup.S
> >> +++ b/kern/i386/pc/startup.S
> >> @@ -2053,3 +2053,102 @@ FUNCTION(grub_vbe_bios_set_palette_data)
> >> popl %ebx
> >> popl %ebp
> >> ret
> >> +
> >> +
> >> +pxe_rm_entry:
> >> + .long 0
> >> +
> >> +/*
> >> + * struct grub_pxenv *grub_pxe_scan (void);
> >> + */
> >> +FUNCTION(grub_pxe_scan)
> >
> > Could these go in a module? If they're only used by disk/i386/pc/pxe.c,
> > maybe they could be merged with that?
>
> The problem is that they need to call real mode function provided by
> the pxe rom, so this code must be loaded under 1m. We can solve this
> with real mode stub or the patch suggested by daChaac, but it's not
> there yet. So we need to keep it in startup.S for some time.
Well I guess we can live with that for a while...
--
Robert Millan
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