From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: raysonlogin@gmail.com
Cc: mouse@mayc.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FatELF & patents
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:54:28 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091026.145428.127892659.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73a01bf20910261059j74bb37a9td472efc21c5440ca@mail.gmail.com>
From: Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:59:22 -0500
> The patent mentions only one prior art:
>
> "One prior art attempt to provide a method for providing a single
> application for a variety of architectures and formats is the ANDF
> system, developed by OSF. This is an architecture neutral binary
> format. A disadvantage of this scheme is that it requires conversion
> to the native architecture at installation time."
>
> I don't think there is anything similar to Apple's fat binary or
> universal binary -- a single executable that can be executed on
> different processor families.
A variant of the Sparc SILO boot loader, called TILO, was
doing this with Sparc Linux kernel images 15 or so years ago.
It packs a 32-bit and a 64-bit Linux kernel into one blob and figures
out which one to actually boot once it figures out what kind of
machine it is executing on.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-26 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-26 15:50 Rayson Ho
2009-10-26 16:01 ` Anton D. Kachalov
2009-10-26 17:59 ` Rayson Ho
2009-10-26 18:42 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-10-26 21:54 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-10-26 22:15 ` Rayson Ho
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