On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Adam Agnew wrote:

for example;
> linuxBIOS ->
>       VGA Search and Init ROM ELF

        with its own printk, etc?

>       <- Back to linuxBIOS
> linuxBIOS ->

        with its own printk, etc?

>       Polled IDE & File Systems Support ELF

>       Success:
>       -> Linux
>       Failure
>       <- Back to LinuxBIOS
> LinuxBIOS ->

        with its own printk, etc?

>       Etherboot tftp boot ELF
>       Success:
>       -> Linux
>       Failure
>       <- Back to LinuxBIOS
> LinuxBIOS ->

        with its own printk, etc?

>       Last Ditch Effort Floppy Boot ELF

        with its own printk, etc?

>       Success:
>       -> Linux
>       Failure
>       <- Back to LinuxBIOS

I just don't see this as the best approach. If we're going to have some 
flexibilty in boot modules, why not just compile them in in a flexible 
way, as opposed to building them all separately? What's the advantage?

ron

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