From: Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@gmail.com>
To: "Måns Rullgård" <mans@mansr.com>,
"Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@icculus.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FatELF patches...
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:08:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <73a01bf20911011408v5b6d335fj46c893a8e7d26ab4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1xhbte0wx0.fsf@unicorn.mansr.com>
2009/11/1 Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com>:
> I've read the list, and I can't find anything I agree with. Honestly.
+1.
Adding code that might bring lawsuits to Linux developers,
distributors, users is a BIG disadvantage.
And beside the legal issues, this first point is already not right:
"Given enough disc space, there's no reason you couldn't have one DVD
.iso that installs an x86-64, x86, PowerPC, SPARC, and MIPS system"
The boot loader is different on different systems, and in fact
different with different firmware. A single DVD that can boot on
different hardware platforms might not be an easy thing to do.
Also, why not build the logic for picking which binary to install into
the installer?? This way, the users don't need to have half of the
disk space wasted due to this FatELF thing.
IMO, the biggest problem users get is not with which hardware binary
to download, but the incompatibly of different Linux kernels and glibc
(the API/ABI).
Rayson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-01 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-30 2:19 Ryan C. Gordon
2009-10-30 5:42 ` Rayson Ho
2009-10-30 14:54 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-01 19:20 ` David Hagood
2009-11-01 20:28 ` Måns Rullgård
2009-11-01 20:59 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-01 21:15 ` Måns Rullgård
2009-11-01 21:35 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 4:58 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-02 15:14 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-03 14:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-03 18:30 ` Matt Thrailkill
2009-11-01 22:08 ` Rayson Ho [this message]
2009-11-02 1:17 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 3:27 ` Rayson Ho
2009-11-02 0:01 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 2:21 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 6:17 ` Julien BLACHE
2009-11-02 18:18 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 18:59 ` Julien BLACHE
2009-11-02 19:08 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-11-02 6:27 ` David Miller
2009-11-02 15:32 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 9:16 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 17:39 ` david
2009-11-02 17:44 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 19:56 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-02 20:11 ` david
2009-11-02 20:33 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-03 1:35 ` Mikael Pettersson
2009-11-02 15:40 ` Diego Calleja
2009-11-04 16:40 ` package managers [was: FatELF patches...] Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 16:54 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-04 17:25 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 17:48 ` Martin Nybo Andersen
2009-11-04 18:46 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 19:46 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-04 20:04 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 20:27 ` david
2009-11-04 20:02 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-04 20:08 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 20:41 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-04 21:11 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 21:32 ` kevin granade
2009-11-04 22:05 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 22:19 ` Marcin Letyns
2009-11-04 22:28 ` david
2009-11-04 22:43 ` Martin Nybo Andersen
2009-11-04 23:55 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-05 2:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-05 2:52 ` Mikulas Patocka
[not found] ` <f42384a10911050134t37a0a812hd85ff5541423dc9f@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-05 9:35 ` Fwd: " Marcin Letyns
2009-11-10 11:40 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-04 23:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-05 0:05 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-10 11:57 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-04 17:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-04 20:28 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 17:52 ` FatELF patches Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 18:53 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 20:13 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-04 1:09 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-10 11:27 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-10 12:40 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2009-11-10 13:00 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-10 13:19 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 16:11 ` Chris Adams
2009-11-01 20:40 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-10 10:04 ` Enrico Weigelt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-03 6:43 Eric Windisch
2009-11-03 11:21 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2009-11-10 10:10 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-10 12:15 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2009-11-10 10:21 ` Enrico Weigelt
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