[PROPOSAL] ARM/FDT: passing multiple binaries to a kernel

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Andre Przywara
[off-list ref] wrote:

On 09/04/2013 12:00 AM, Rob Herring wrote:

quoted

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Andre Przywara

quoted

But surely there would be some advantage of reuse by using the
multi-boot protocol since Xen, grub, and OS tools already support it
for x86.

Yes, but that is x86 only and multiboot is it's nature quite architecture
specific. The current(?) multiboot v2 spec has no official ARM support (only
x86 and MIPS), so this would need to be "invented" first. While this is
technically easy, ARM software currently has no support for multiboot at
all: not in u-boot and not in Xen.
Multiboot support in Xen lives entirely in the x86 directory, and big parts
of it are even in assembly.

If so, I cannot find the assembly and most of it seems to be moved out
of x86 code now.

Rob