Usb boot loader would be just a nice feature to have in an existent application.
Why should one use "tiny kernel + kexec", if there are such a wonderful things like linuxbios and filo?
On Nov 16, 2007 8:07 PM, yhlu yinghailu@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 16, 2007 4:42 AM, Fridel Fainshtein fainshf@gmail.com wrote:
Etherboot does not work with gcc 4. At least filo part. As I remember, I found a few strange things like #if 0 <-- original #define isdigit(c) ((c & 0x04) != 0) #define islower(c) ((c & 0x02) != 0) //#define isspace(c) ((c & 0x20) != 0) #define isupper(c) ((c & 0x01) != 0) #else <-- not optimized correction #define isdigit(c) (c >= '0' && c <= '9') #define islower(c) (c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') #define isupper(c) (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') #endif
These strange things caused FILO in ETHERBOOT not to work. I"ve never tested but does FILO in ETHERBOOT work if it is compiled with gcc 3?
the dev environment for that was RHEL 9 on 32bit laptop. OHCI was working Tyan s2885 or s2880.
what will your application be? why not use tiny kernel + kexec instead?
YH