Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Q: Linux rebooting directly into linux. | Date | 11 Nov 2000 12:33:15 -0800 |
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Followup to: <m1g0kycm0x.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> By author: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > > > The interface is designed to be simple and inflexible yet very > > > powerful. To that end the code just takes an elf binary, and a > > > command line. The started image also takes an environment generated > > > by the kernel of all of the unprobeable hardware details. > > > > Isn't this what milo does on alpha? > > Similar milo uses kernel drivers in it's own framework. > This has proved to be a major maintenance problem. Milo is nearly > a kernel fork. > > The design is for the long term to get this incorporated into the > kernel, and even if not a small kernel patch should be easier to > maintain that a harness for calling kernel drivers. >
I'm working on something similiar in "Genesis". It pretty much is (or rather, will be) a kernel *port*, not a fork; the port is such that it can run on top of a simple BIOS extender and thus access the boot media.
-hpa
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