Andy Green wrote: > I referred to this as "kboot" for want of a better name. Rather than > buy into any meaning from that, to me, this is simply the "minimal shim > to run Linux".
Yeah, I also thought about a better name I could suggest, but couldn't come up with something nice quickly. > What shell features? File system navigation, invocation of recovery tools, etc. > Shell features in bootloader are evil. They're rather nice to have if they come at the cost of "cp" ;-) > Having been through rootfs creation with DM2, I think the winning way to > make this secondary rootfs is from the pieces we build be main rootfs > from. Since we already have a distribution that does (or can be made to do) what we want, that's the right way to do it, yes. (There was no suitable distribution around back when I wrote kboot, which is why it takes the DIY/NIH approach.) However, we need some sort of UI for the boot loader. Petitboot looks like a promising candidate for this. I don't know how PS3-specific it is under the hood, but I'm sure the PS3 developers won't mind if it becomes a bit more universal. - Werner
