Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Feb 2000 20:54:17 -0700 (MST) | From | "Ronald G. Minnich" <> | Subject | bootimg and LOBOS |
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one other interesting difference: bootimg lets user mode read in the file, and pass a pointer to the kernel; LOBOS reads in the file in the kernel using read_exec(), after first doing a lookup on the name and getting a dentry.
Why does LOBOS do it in the kernel? well, there are cases you want to let linux boot linux without even getting to running a user-mode process. Think of linuxbios ...
Now that I've said this I'll see Werner's v3 tomorrow that does this too :=)
ron
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