1.1 development release targets.

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Tue Apr 15 18:09:00 CEST 2003


ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:

> On 15 Apr 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > Steve Gehlbach <steve at nexpath.com> writes:
> > > What about the alternative floppy/ide routines? 
> > 
> > Given that there are several types of rom chips we will
> > need to continue to support several types of loaders, not just
> > loading from a classic x86 rom chip.  I think the floppy/ide
> > routines may be a bit of unnecessary but there is no real impact
> > on the rest of the code base.
> 
> I think there is going to be continued use of the ide/floppy stuff without 
> etherboot. I have requests for that all the time. It's going to have to 
> stay.

That is fine.  As long as we can keep the restriction on only one
compiled into the code. 

Beyond the infrastructure level I really don't care.
 
> I support only loading elfboot images from linuxbios. It just makes too 
> much sense.

Eric




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