[coreboot] [patch] mkelfimage intelligent placement of ramdisk

[H. Peter Anvin]

Peter Stuge wrote:
> 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.

Yes, and therein lies the problem.  They shouldn't have to be.

APIs exist to decouple modules.  Use them.  I understand there is 
finally some serious work going on in that vein in the coreboot 
community; this makes sense.

The "no API" model is idiotic.

	-hpa