[LinuxBIOS] Error in FSF high priority list LinuxBIOS description

Peter Stuge stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org
Wed May 3 11:27:58 CEST 2006


On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:18:17AM -0700, yhlu wrote:
> Not future, with LinuxBIOS+kernel+kexec..we already can use kernel
> as bootloader...

I agree, it can be done today, but..


> current we only put some effects to provide tiny kernel and small
> ramdisk...

..because of these issues it isn't the norm.

Has anyone even gotten a LinuxBIOS with Linux payload into 512KB?


> fastboot seems to provide the ramdisk...

Do you know if it's an initramfs? I haven't gotten around to
experimenting with that yet, but it looks nice.


//Peter




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