Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Sep 1998 21:24:54 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Module Ideas: Persistence, PnP, and more... |
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On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 04:49:16PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > I'd like to find a way of providing modules at boot time, for the kernel to > initialise before it tries to find a root filesystem.
How is this much different than romfs+initrd? You can do romfs+initrd before initialising just about anything else, except the memory subsystem. Even that can be minimal.
romfs+initrd can run before initialising PCI devices, console, other CPUs, CPU bug checks, IO-APIC etc.
I don't see how the Multiboot Standard is in any way superior.
-- Jamie
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