On 2 Dec 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Ron, what do you think about adding a bootloader (in the linuxBIOS > tree), that uses the fill_inbuf architecture we already have for > booting. I don't want to add boot policy in the core of the tree but > if we had an optional bootloader that shouldn't be a problem.
I think it's a good idea, it would extend what steve james has already done for ethernet. You know me, I would rather have linux do this work, but the mainboard manufacturers are NOT cooperating in giving us those big FLASH parts :-) > And if it shared it's drivers with the main linuxBIOS we could load > one kernel from anywhere... > It might make sense to work with something like etherboot on this but > having it internal looks easier... It just seems like we have no choice. Question, though: What do we do about people who want to interact with the boot loader and use graphics? do we put graphics into linuxbios? Then it may grow big! We've got a problem here ... it's bigger then just the bootloader, maybe. ron
