Multiboot support
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enhancement
- Dominant language
- C
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Description
For booting unikernels such as Solo5 and Rumprun it would be good to support multiboot.
@avsm Tells me that "Thomas Haggett had a half finished tree so we could finish that up".
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue requests multiboot support for unikernels such as Solo5 and Rumprun and mentions a half-finished tree attributed to Thomas Haggett. Start by locating that tree and reviewing the existing boot paths; done means completing multiboot support for the stated unikernel targets. No files or tests are named.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100