FILO 0.4 [PMX:#]

[Yinghai Lu]

Eric,

Greg just move the fs support from filo to linuxbios, and create fs_stream. 

It still calls the elfboot to load the elfimage in HD. And it doesn't
support linux_load.

So it is some kind of boot loader you said.

It is really enhancement to ide_stream.c

Regards

YH

-----邮件原件-----
发件人: Eric W. Biederman [mailto:eric at lnxi.com] 代表 Eric W. Biederman
发送时间: 2004年4月3日 20:33
收件人: Greg Watson
抄送: Yinghai Lu; 'SONE Takeshi'; linuxbios at clustermatic.org
主题: Re: g-e$: FILO 0.4 [PMX:#]

Greg Watson <gwatson at lanl.gov> writes:

> Yeah sorry, I kind of did that by stealth. Ron and I get lots of requests
from
> people wanting to use LB but who don't know how to deal with the payload
> issue. We decided that it would be really nice to have a simple bootloader
that
> understands some basic filesystems built into LB. That way people can get
going
> without having to deal with etherboot or FILO directly. A nice side effect
is
> that it simplifies the FILO code significantly - in fact the only code
that is
> really required is the filesystem support. Also, another major plus is
that the
> code supports PPC as well as x86. Up to now I've had no bootloaders
(etherboot
> or FILO) that work on PPC.

Then we refactor and make building the bootloader part of the tree.
These things are policy engines.  We need to separate mechanism and policy.

As far as I can tell this level of support crosses the line.

etherboot is portable and would not be hard to get running on ppc.

Eric