Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:48:24 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] x86 ELF bootable kernels/Linux booting Linux/LinuxBIOS |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >>It would be convenient to be able to directly boot a bzImage, >>but I guess elf is workable. > > Well that is directly booting vmlinux, and it doesn't lock you into > booting the linux kernel which is very important to me. >
Neither is bzImage... you can use bzImage format for other things. My main worry about this is that it locks you into booting a single image (as opposed to kernel+initramfs, the latter of which can be composed on the fly if desirable), which is a huge step backwards IMNSHO.
-hpa
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