Re: Specification of BTINFO_CONSOLE value in bootinfo.h

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 10:09:49AM +0200, Sheda wrote:
> I confirm the amd64 port is not multiboot compliant,
> arch/amd64/amd64/locore.S lake the multiboot header you can see in its
> i386 counterpart:
> http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/arch/i386/i386/locore.S?v=NETBSD#L261

That statement is kind of nonsense as there is no 64bit multiboot
specification. The way Linux and Xen use "multiboot" is to provide a
32bit startup point and do quite a bit of the 64bit setup in the kernel,
which kind of defeats having a high level boot loader in first place.

Joerg