Messages in this thread | | | From | Kalin KOZHUHAROV <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] Gujin linux.kgz boot format | Date | Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:35:06 +0900 |
| |
Etienne Lorrain wrote: >>>>It seems to work okay here. Now, rewriting current boot system into C >>>>may be good goal... >>> >>> At least that is a way which does not involve modifying assembler >>> files. Slowly everybody switches to the C version which continue >>> to evolve (i.e. removing old BIOS calls), then the tree under >>> arch/i386/boot is removed and we can begin to rearrange the mapping >>> of "struct linux_param". >> >>Will your C version work with lilo and grub? > > > Tricky question. In short no, it cannot.
[snip a long explaination of why this is practically impossible]
> Sorry I cannot be compatible with them, please note that > Gujin is also GPL.
So you are saying: "Dump GRUB and lilo, use Gujin!" ??
I don't think anybody will agree with that even if it is a better way in some way. Until some level of compatibility is guaranteed with the currently de facto loaders, at least I cannot support this idea in any way. Discussing that with GRUB and lilo devs, might be an idea, but who knows.
Kalin.
-- |[ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ]| +-> http://ThinRope.net/ <-+ |[ ______________________ ]|
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |