Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:52:31 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Kernels > 1M |
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Derek Wildstar wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > > > > It'd be really great if we could do this, because the zImage, bzImage, > > > > etc. nonsense would just disappear and `vmlinux' would be bootable, > > > > gzipped or not. > > > > > > It would suck... because you just invented *yet another* format > > > incompatible with all the rest. > > > > I don't see why a plain ELF executable (possibly gzipped) is yet > > another format. > > Seems booting an uncompressed kernel directly from the FS would be the > sensible way to go...especially if this loader manages to get around > the 1024-cylinder BIOS limit. Every commercial UNIX i have worked with > has done this....I fail to see how we'd be creating an incompatible > format? Please elaborate =) > > -dwild
Is it compatible with existing boot loaders? No? Then guess what that is... INCOMPATIBLE!
Not to mention it would have to be made to work with initrd, etc; a new boot protocol needs to be created entirely. That is not inherently a bad idea, but incompatibility is a high price that demands a high payoff.
-hpa
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