[coreboot] [patch] mkelfimage intelligent placement of ramdisk

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Wed Jun 11 05:07:36 CEST 2008


On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:58:58PM -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> H Peter Anvin (of kernel fame) wrote wraplinux from scratch because
> mknbi has such terrible code and has been dead for so long.

Sweet!


> He said wraplinux relies upon "int 15h, AX=2401h (unless A20 is
> enabled) and int 15h, AX=E820h (for probing memory)".  He indicated
> that he really dislikes the design of coreboot and will likely
> never support it.

I would very much appreciate if you could expand on this.

In general I think more communication involving coreboot and kernel
developers is a good thing because the projects can be quite closely
connected.


//Peter




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