[parted-devel] GPT MBR protocol

[H. Peter Anvin]

I have done a first draft of a GPT-under-BIOS booting protocol; it's 
designed as a straightforward extension of the existing MBR-under-BIOS 
handover protocol.


There is an implementation in the syslinux git tree:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=summary


The spec is at:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=blob;f=doc/gpt.txt;hb=HEAD


Note that this doesn't obviate the need for hybrid support (also 
described in the spec above), since that is required to boot proprietary 
protocols.  It's also not at all clear to me that any proprietary vendor 
would play nice with *any* protocol we would come up with; they tend to 
suffer from NIH in a big way.

	-hpa