Greg Watson gwatson@lanl.gov writes:
I would like to see this from the PPC perspective. Since neither filo nor etherboot work on PPC, this might be a good way of booting from, say, a disk. Which would be nice.
I won't argue with that but this will take some time to come to fruition. etherboot should be fairly straight forward to port to the PPC. Currently etherboot supports 3 architectures 4 if you count x86_64. The PPC would not even be the first big endian port. So for a low end solution that works I still recommend etherboot.
But if we can avoid the bloat issues the Linux kernel is a good thing to have.
Any interest in porting kexec to the ppc? It is not strictly required if you can get your kernel to avoid the memory problem but it is quite useful.
Eric