"Thomas J. Merritt" wrote:
|<><><><><> Original message from Ronald G Minnich <><><><><> |On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: | |> Can you steal code from LILO to patch the in-core kernel image with |> values it needs? |> |> Right now the Linux kernel depends on a memory map read from BIOS. One |> solution -- which I think should belong in the official kernel -- might |> be to create our own memory map, and then pass the physical address of |> that map into the kernel image.
Just a thought - ignore me if it's daft - loadlin takes command line params and passes them to the kernel - why not use the same method...?
-- Yours
Matthew
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