Opened 5 years ago
Last modified 5 years ago
#15119 new enhancement
Implement multiboot2 bootloader support to haiku_loader
Reported by: | kallisti5 | Owned by: | nobody |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
Component: | System/Boot Loader | Version: | R1/Development |
Keywords: | multiboot2 | Cc: | |
Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
Platform: | All |
Description
qemu (as well as grub and a hand-full of other bootloaders) support the new(ish) multiboot2 specification.
Implementing a multiboot2 loader would allow us to boot our haiku_loader directly in things like qemu and pass the fdt, initial ram disk, etc and not depend on things like u-boot on these platforms. This would accelerate non-x86 platform development by allowing us to reduce the complexity of booting haiku_loader (bypass efi, u-boot, bios_ia32, etc) and load our kernel (well, haiku_loader) directly.
Some example code is here:
The specification is here:
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(I started poking at things, but don't need another rabbit hole to follow.)
Here are some example things: