From: Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: mouse@mayc.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FatELF & patents
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:15:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <73a01bf20910261515i7ae71042t4cf76d8d677b8944@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091026.145428.127892659.davem@davemloft.net>
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:54 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> A variant of the Sparc SILO boot loader, called TILO, was
> doing this with Sparc Linux kernel images 15 or so years ago.
Patent 5432937:
Filing date: Aug 20, 1993
Issue date: Jul 11, 1995
According to the files' copyright header (excluding inflate.c, which
is actually the gzip stuff), the project was started in 1995 or 1996.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/infosystems/ultrapenguin/sparc/misc/src/trees/tilo-0.2/src/
Rayson
>
> 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.
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-26 22:15 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
2009-10-26 22:15 ` Rayson Ho [this message]
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