Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Grover, Andrew" <> | Subject | RE: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file | Date | Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:53:34 -0800 |
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> From: Otto Wyss [mailto:otto.wyss@bluewin.ch] > You have to admit that a multiple streams file format > (regardless which kind) > would be a good solution to the booting of a modular kernel. > Anyway this format > has to be supported by the kernel itself and in some extend > by any boot loader. > So anybody has to write a kernel module for the cpio/tar > format and help with > implementing it into boot loaders. Maybe you could give some help.
I don't think multiple streams is a good idea, but did you all see the patch by Christian Koenig to let the bootloader load modules? That seems to solve the problem nicely.
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