Re : [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading by Gujin 1/3

[Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr>]

H. Peter Anvin, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>> Either way, though, putting Gujin-specific code in the main kernel 
>> output is a pretty dull thud.
>
> Agreed.

 May I ask if you are refering to the Gujin structures under the
ROOT_EXTENSIVE_SEARCH compilation switch, or the
C structures describing the BIOS which could even be used
in the kernel?

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From what little I skimmed part of what Gujin wanted to do was sane
> at first glance. Just boot a gziped vmlinux like the other
> architectures.  The problem was the 16bit code.

 So without ROOT_EXTENSIVE_SEARCH defined.
 It is so usefull when you have loads of distributions...
 But yes, maybe that part should be in another file, maybe
 not a complete directory for a single file.
 There is also a special problem with ia32, the number of processor
 involved and their partial compatibilities, that Gujin try to help with.

> So there may be some good ideas buried in there somewhere, but it
> likely to take some doing, and patches that I have to save before
> I read them are a real pain!

 Last time I used this web interface it did not encode text files...

> Eric

 Thanks,
  Etienne.


	

	
		
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