IDEA: Linux kernel and pcbios compatibility...

[ron minnich]

On 19 Dec 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> What Pink does works. I can't throw J. Random kernel at beoboot and have
> that work.  I can't throw memtest86 at it and have that work.  I can't use an
> SMP aware kernel with beoboot.   And last I looked beoboot had a bulky user
> space that makes it hard to squeeze into flash as well.  So beoboot
> with 2 kernel monte works for a certain interesting subset of cases
> but it does not handle the general case.

ok, gotcha. I don't think I would use beoboot for the general flash case, 
I think what Andrew Ip set up with kernel+kexec+initrd with some utils is 
the right model.

> Except possibly for the exotic driver case 512KB is a large enough
> FLASH chip to put in both LinuxBIOS and a kernel.  You have to work at
> it with a 512KB flash chip but it is doable today.

gotcha.

thanks

ron