Mathieu Deschamps mdeschamps@mangrove-systems.com writes:
Hello,
Since i have mostly 'directly choose' Filo, i haven't had much time asking for the difference between Linuxbios native's Elfboot and Linuxbios native's filo. I know you did made some work around theses...
The native ``filo'' is scheduled for deletion, it touches hardwaremain which it should not. As implemented it is a maintenance nightmare and an implementation of policy and I refuse to support it, in the core of LinuxBIOS. Until just a little while ago I thought it was much less intrusive so was not forcing the issue.
(i have read the doc of Sone Takeshi and i have the features of filo.)
Could you explain me what differences there are and/or whether this one best suited for DoC or CF or other types i'am ignoring ? Please also let me know what type of filesys elfboot boots, and other thing about support
ELF boot is a minimal loader just good enough to load something real out off some device. ELF boot just grabs an ELF image at the offset in a device it is pointed at. The image can be sparse so it can exist with partition tables and filesystems. The trivial solution is to put a partition right after partition table for the ELF image. More interesting forms of coexistance are possible by noone has implemented more than a proof of concept.
If you want to use filo which understand filesystems and partitions get the real one. It has been developing faster and it appears to have more features.
Eric