From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932265AbVKFV5U (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2005 16:57:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932263AbVKFV5T (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2005 16:57:19 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:10468 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932265AbVKFV5R (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2005 16:57:17 -0500 From: Andreas Schwab To: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Whys and hows of initrds References: <8413367b0511060924s550024b8w1113564cd6bb9340@mail.gmail.com> <436E4FDF.7000503@mnsu.edu> <8413367b0511061256u565de887jf5819ff9b3b4030c@mail.gmail.com> X-Yow: My BIOLOGICAL ALARM CLOCK just went off.. It has noiseless DOZE FUNCTION and full kitchen!! Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:57:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: <8413367b0511061256u565de887jf5819ff9b3b4030c@mail.gmail.com> (grfgguvf@gmail.com's message of "Sun, 6 Nov 2005 21:56:20 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."