Hello Larry (or Eric) :)
>> I've been wanting Linux which can boot Linux for a long time.
>I am maintaining a version of this functionality against 2.4.x
>called kexec. And I plan to work on integration into linux with 2.5.x.
>After the details are worked out I will look at a backport to 2.4.x
I think that this is a very important point, since will ease the
making of installation disks, etc... Moreover, it will ease the
creation of 'live' linux systems that can do a pretty work detecting
the hardware and the like.
>The hard part is not linux booting linux but the passing of the
>firmware/BIOS tables from one kernel to the next.
Why?. I mean, I haven't read on this issue in the LOBOS project.
I'm afraid I thought that this was easier than it really is...
>I am doing this a part of the linuxBIOS effort and as such it is just
I want to take a look at LinuxBIOS.
Ra?l
RaXl NXXez de Arenas Coronado <[email protected]> writes:
> Hello Larry (or Eric) :)
>
> >> I've been wanting Linux which can boot Linux for a long time.
> >I am maintaining a version of this functionality against 2.4.x
> >called kexec. And I plan to work on integration into linux with 2.5.x.
> >After the details are worked out I will look at a backport to 2.4.x
>
> I think that this is a very important point, since will ease the
> making of installation disks, etc... Moreover, it will ease the
> creation of 'live' linux systems that can do a pretty work detecting
> the hardware and the like.
Yep it allows linux to sever a lot of very interesting roles. Linux
doesn't act especially well as firmware (it is fairly big). But otherwise
it does a good job.
> >The hard part is not linux booting linux but the passing of the
> >firmware/BIOS tables from one kernel to the next.
>
> Why?. I mean, I haven't read on this issue in the LOBOS project.
> I'm afraid I thought that this was easier than it really is...
The difficulty isn't in implementation but in freezing the API. Which
is needed if you want a solid long term approach.
>
> >I am doing this a part of the linuxBIOS effort and as such it is just
>
> I want to take a look at LinuxBIOS.
The documentation is sketchy but you can look at:
http://www.linuxbios.org and ask questions on the mailing list.
Eric