[Etherboot-developers] Multiboot Information structure is not correct

[SONE T. <ts...@cm...>]

Hi,
I think that Multiboot loader in Etherboot is not correctly
implemented.

The Specification says 'mmap_addr' points to 'size' of the
first mmap entry, but Etherboot's structure points to 
'base_addr_low'.

Also, the 'size' of a mmap entry should not include the size of itself,
but Etherboot does. (That is, a Multiboot OS looks at every 'size+4' 
bytes for mmap entries, but with Etherboot, the mmap entries are
at every 'size' bytes.)

The Multiboot Specification may be ambiguous and misleading,
but the example code in the Specification and the implementation 
in GRUB are different from Etherboot.

Eric's mkelfImage is based on Etherboot's implementation
so it should also be fixed.

--
Takeshi