Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] x86 ELF bootable kernels/Linux booting Linux/LinuxBIOS | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 01 Feb 2002 08:42:45 -0700 |
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > a) More complex. Just barely. b) Yep. > > c) Yep. > > d) More flexible and can handle what ever it needs to do tomorrow, > > without mods. All firmware has it's own different format. With LinuxBIOS > > things are > > simple enough that you can add a make target instead of having to > > write a specific bootloader to support it. > > > > > I cannot agree with you on (d). In fact, you have already brushed off a > multiple of issues I have raised, such as interactivity.
What is magic about interactivity? What makes this a different problem? We approach booting from totally different perspectives, which makes communicating clearly hard.
If you spell out individual problems I will show you how I would solve them.
I believe I have done my due diligence and provided appropriate channels for everything, but I'm willing to test it.
> I don't particularly care if you want to make this the LinuxBIOS > platform-specific whatever, but when you start talking about making it the grand > universal thing, you have me seriously concerned.
Hey it isn't wrong to dream of world domination :)
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