1.1 development release targets.
ron minnich
rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Apr 15 13:59:00 CEST 2003
On 15 Apr 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Steve Gehlbach <steve at nexpath.com> writes:
> > What about the alternative floppy/ide routines?
>
> Given that there are several types of rom chips we will
> need to continue to support several types of loaders, not just
> loading from a classic x86 rom chip. I think the floppy/ide
> routines may be a bit of unnecessary but there is no real impact
> on the rest of the code base.
I think there is going to be continued use of the ide/floppy stuff without
etherboot. I have requests for that all the time. It's going to have to
stay.
I support only loading elfboot images from linuxbios. It just makes too
much sense.
ron
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