On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/04/2013 12:00 AM, Rob Herring wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Andre Przywara >> But surely there would be some advantage of reuse by using the >> multi-boot protocol since Xen, grub, and OS tools already support it >> for x86. > > > Yes, but that is x86 only and multiboot is it's nature quite architecture > specific. The current(?) multiboot v2 spec has no official ARM support (only > x86 and MIPS), so this would need to be "invented" first. While this is > technically easy, ARM software currently has no support for multiboot at > all: not in u-boot and not in Xen. > Multiboot support in Xen lives entirely in the x86 directory, and big parts > of it are even in assembly. If so, I cannot find the assembly and most of it seems to be moved out of x86 code now. Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
