Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Feb 2004 07:49:13 +0100 (CET) | From | Tomasz Kłoczko <> | Subject | Re: IPV4 as module? |
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 der.eremit@email.de wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:20:07 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel: > > >> That's not all correct. You can fit 700 MB data on a CD-ROM, but booting > >> is still emulated from a 1.44 MB floppy (or some other floppy/HDD > >> images, but many BIOSses won't accept those (or handle them correctly)). > > Baloney. Most BIOSes support "no emulation" booting these days; in fact, > > there are more that don't do floppy emulation correctly than the few very > > old BIOSes which didn't do no emulation. > > Even if wanting to support BIOSes that don't do "no emulation", all it > takes is simple initrd to locate and mount the iso9660 filesystem off the > real device - and that easily fits on a 2.88 MB floppy image used for > emulated floppy boot. Should also fit on an 1.44 MB image, although I've > not seen a BIOS yet that didn't like a 2.88 MB image on a CD.
But back to topic .. can someone say something more and detailed about things which dissallow now separation IPV4 stack in module ?
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