Werner Almesberger wrote: > Yeah, that would be nice. It would also avoid depending on a > "traditional" first-stage boot loader to load things from disk. > (That is, in a standard configuration. kboot doesn't really care > how you load it.)
note that some of us are trying to go this way in the Plan 9 world too. Although it's been easier to do this in Plan 9 for some time -- the Plan 9 equivalent of kexec went in in 2000, so a kboot-like thing is pretty easy. In fact, Werner, I'll probably try to steal as many kboot ideas as I can :-) > > By the way, how much flash is in modern x86 motherboards these > days ? 2 MB would be great for kboot, 2 MB? dream on :-( Getting 1 MB is as good as we can do for now. But, thank Intel for EFI, since that will give us 16 MB ... ron -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
