From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: <grfgguvf@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Whys and hows of initrds
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:57:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeoe4xh22s.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8413367b0511061256u565de887jf5819ff9b3b4030c@mail.gmail.com> (grfgguvf@gmail.com's message of "Sun, 6 Nov 2005 21:56:20 +0100")
<grfgguvf@gmail.com> writes:
> FreeBSD (for example) has a bootloader that can load arbitrary modules
> in addition to the kernel.
> Is there anything preventing that to be done with Linux? Or is it just
> not powerful enough?
Implementing the module loading in the boot loader means duplicating the
functionality there, making the boot loader more complex and dependent on
the loaded kernel.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-06 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-06 17:24 grfgguvf
[not found] ` <436E4FDF.7000503@mnsu.edu>
2005-11-06 20:56 ` grfgguvf
2005-11-06 21:57 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2005-11-06 23:35 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-06 23:58 ` Neil Brown
2005-11-07 1:23 ` grfgguvf
[not found] <55Wvl-4jY-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-11-06 17:50 ` Robert Hancock
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