Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:30:19 -0600 | From | "M. R. Brown" <> | Subject | Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file |
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* Grover, Andrew <andrew.grover@intel.com> on Tue, Dec 18, 2001:
> > From: Alexander Viro [mailto:viro@math.psu.edu] > > On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Grover, Andrew wrote: > > > GRUB 0.90 does this today. > > ... and I'm quite sure that EMACS could do it easily. Let's not talk > > about GNU bloatware, OK? > > I don't think this is bloatware, especially considering there really isn't > any cost for having a full-featured bootloader - all its footprint gets > reclaimed, after all. I respect lilo and its cousins, but they make things > harder than they have to be. Why maintain a reduced level of functionality > (software emaciation?) when better alternatives are available? >
Available for what? SuperH? MIPS? IA-64? Your precious GRUB and Multiboot "standard" are only ever useful on the x86 architecture, so you would propose a x86-specific global change that doesn't benefit the rest of the other kernel archs? Bloat for the sake of?
> > > IOW, we are backwards compatible with old > > loaders. > > No progress will ever be made if we cater to the lowest common denominator. >
The i386.
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