On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:25:11 -0400 Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Increasingly the cobbled together boot protocol that > is bzImage does not have the flexibility to deal > with booting in new situations. > > Now that we no longer support the bootsector loader > we have 512 bytes at the very start of a bzImage that > we can use for other things. > > Placing an ELF header there allows us to retain > a single binary for all of x86 while at the same > time describing things that bzImage does not allow > us to describe. Seems that the entire kernel effort is an ongoing plot to make my poor little Vaio stop working. This patch turns it into a black-screened rock as soon as it does grub -> linux. Stock-standard FC5 install, config at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt. _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
