[coreboot] buildrom: cleanup package includes (updated)

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Tue May 6 05:42:58 CEST 2008


On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> wrote:

> So; given that we have tight space constraints, is the idea for a kernel
> payload to have non-essential modules on disk to be loaded later?

yes. Just enough to boot from disk or net. I did pure kernel payloads
with network drivers only.

I even once experimented with modifying linux main() to put the
bootstrap code right into the kernel -- this saves a ton of space,
actually.

thanks

ron




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