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Re: Multiboot specification for PowerPC
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Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: Multiboot specification for PowerPC |
Date: |
Mon, 02 Aug 2004 15:34:57 +0200 |
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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.
--
Marco