From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:39:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:39:30 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:41772 "EHLO frodo.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:39:22 -0500 Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 18:33:07 -0700 From: ebiederm@xmission.com Message-Id: <200203310133.SAA12760@frodo.biederman.org> To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [CFT][RFC] Linux/i386 boot protocol version 2.04 In-Reply-To: From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 30 Mar 2002 18:33:07 -0700 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes: > I have been doing some very weird things with booting the Linux kernel > for a long time. > - Entering the kernel in 32bit mode to avoid 16bit BIOS calls. > - Converting bzImage into static ELF executables. > - Hard coding a kernel command-line > - Going back to 16bit mode to make BIOS calls if necessary. > > This version of the boot protocol should be fully backwards compatible > but has new capabilities so I can do all of the above cleanly. > > The current plan is to send this to Linus in the next couple of days > as soon as he gets back. > > > The patch series is at: > ftp://download.lnxi.com/pub/src/linux-kernel-patches/boot/ > > The overall patch is: > ftp://download.lnxi.com/pub/src/linux-kernel-patches/boot/linux-2.5.7.boot.diff > > Anyway please tell me what you think. For those having trouble getting in an alternative address is: http://www.xmission.com/~ebiederm/files/boot/linux-2.5.7.boot.diff Eric