lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1999]   [Aug]   [22]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Kernels > 1M
At 14:52 -0700 1999-08-22, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>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.

What you're missing is that this format/protocol already exists. It's
called Multiboot: <http://www.uruk.org/grub/boot-proposal.html>.
There was an old multiboot patch for Linux 1.2, which simply made
vmlinux multiboot compliant, zImage, and bzImage were left alone and
unaffected.
--
Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer
<URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org>
<URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:53    [W:0.040 / U:1.792 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site