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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] Gujin linux.kgz boot format
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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.

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