1.1 development release targets.
Eric W. Biederman
ebiederman at lnxi.com
Tue Apr 15 18:09:00 CEST 2003
ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:
> 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.
That is fine. As long as we can keep the restriction on only one
compiled into the code.
Beyond the infrastructure level I really don't care.
> I support only loading elfboot images from linuxbios. It just makes too
> much sense.
Eric
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