Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Q: Linux rebooting directly into linux. | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 11 Nov 2000 17:09:10 -0700 |
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 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.
Hmm. You must mean similiar to milo.
Have fun. With linuxBIOS I'm working exactly the other way. Killing off the BIOS. And letting the initial firmware be just a boot loader. The reduction is complexity should make it more reliable.
Eric
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