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Re: Multiboot for amd64?



On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 09:44:09PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > I might even go as far as to say 'options MULTIBOOT' should
> > disappear, but forget I almost said that.
> 
> I'd rather see the "native" boot mode disappear and multiboot become
> all we support.  We need mutiboot for xen, so we'd better learn to
> live with it.

multiboot is not really an improvement. It is just as messy as the
native protocol and adds a lot of useless complexity.

Joerg


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