Re: Multiboot for amd64?

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Subject: Re: Multiboot for amd64?
From: Grégoire Sutre <gregoire.sutre%labri.fr@localhost>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:54:18 +0100

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

At least the legacy branch of grub doesn't spport multiboot for amd64
ELF binaries. Which makes it not very attractive to work on.

I'm not knowledgeable about these issues, but if I understood correctly,in GRUB 2, multiboot supports ELF-64 binaries that start in i386 mode.Doesn't the NetBSD/amd64 kernel start in i386 mode?


Thanks for your help,

Grégoire

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