IDEA: Linux kernel and pcbios compatibility...
ron minnich
rminnich at lanl.gov
Fri Dec 19 16:49:00 CET 2003
On 19 Dec 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> What Pink does works. I can't throw J. Random kernel at beoboot and have
> that work. I can't throw memtest86 at it and have that work. I can't use an
> SMP aware kernel with beoboot. And last I looked beoboot had a bulky user
> space that makes it hard to squeeze into flash as well. So beoboot
> with 2 kernel monte works for a certain interesting subset of cases
> but it does not handle the general case.
ok, gotcha. I don't think I would use beoboot for the general flash case,
I think what Andrew Ip set up with kernel+kexec+initrd with some utils is
the right model.
> Except possibly for the exotic driver case 512KB is a large enough
> FLASH chip to put in both LinuxBIOS and a kernel. You have to work at
> it with a 512KB flash chip but it is doable today.
gotcha.
thanks
ron
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