Re: Booting over the serial port - how about parallel?

[Ronald G Minnich]

On 17 Jun 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Where to draw the line is a tough call.  My gut impression
> is that a command interpreter tends to cross the line of a minimal
> bootloader.


That's why I haven't put it in yet. You put in a command interpreter and
pretty soon you're going to tread the path of open boot and SRM, and that
would be very very bad. As we already know, given that SRM requires 2
MBYTES of flash to work and we can put the biggest kernel in there
imaginable, along with an initrd containing ash.

ron