Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Ollie Lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> >>>Returning from ELF is possible. So far I've specced it as bootloader >>>dependent. It isn't currently implemented in linuxBIOS. But >>>linuxBIOS is also not being stomped by the loaded image. >>> >>> >> >>I was considering something like the current 0x55 0xAA "BIOS Extension" >>mechanism. The ELF loader scans every .stream compiled in for the ELF >>header. If the header is presented in the media, load the ELF >>executable. >> > > This sounds doable. The real question I guess is what do we want this > for? >
I will used it to load some HW test program (like simplified memtest86 before loading Linux Kernel. It also can potentially solve the GPL/NDA conflict to some extend. Our customer may have some HW which they don't want even us to know (they probably don't know it niether), if that part of code is in an ELF image and loaded by LinuxBIOS then there will be no GPL violation. Ollie
