problem with udelay solved - romimage too big

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Fri Mar 14 12:29:01 CET 2003


Adam Agnew <agnew at cs.umd.edu> writes:

> > Steven James wrote:
> > > These days, LinuxBIOS expects to find a bootloader in ELF format at the
> > > beginning of the ROM. Etherboot has an extension to load an image from a
> > > raw IDE partition. I'm working on one that can handle an ext2
> > > filesystem,
> > > but it's VERY alpha at the moment.
> 
> Oh, wait, i see what you mean. On closer inspection of etherboot-5.1.7
> they didn't include the file system code? I wonder why.. but alright.

Because I rolled the code in.  And I have always seen the fs code as
overkill for the problem.  

However the code should be layered well enough that you should be able
to incorporate the fs code if you like.

Eric




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