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SubjectRe: Module Ideas: Persistence, PnP, and more...
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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