Return-Path: <linux-kernel-owner+willy=40w.ods.org@vger.kernel.org>
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand
	id <S262882AbSKJBmD>; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 20:42:03 -0500
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org
	id <S262883AbSKJBmD>; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 20:42:03 -0500
Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust42.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.42]:59295 "EHLO
	irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP
	id <S262882AbSKJBmD>; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 20:42:03 -0500
Subject: Re: [lkcd-devel] Re: What's left over.
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
       Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>,
       Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>,
       Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
       "Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@aparity.com>,
       Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Andy Pfiffer <andyp@osdl.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
       "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <m1of8ycihs.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211091510060.1571-100000@home.transmeta.com> 
	<m1of8ycihs.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) 
Date: 10 Nov 2002 02:12:27 +0000
Message-Id: <1036894347.22173.6.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 669
Lines: 19

On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 01:37, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The reasons I don't jump on board:
> - It does not handle multiple segments.
>   Without multiple segments I think I simply out essential complexity
>   of the problem.  A bzImage has at least 2.

Thats a matter for user space and the unpacker

> - vmalloc is artificially limited to 128MB.

Just grabbing a load of pages and using kmap/scatter gather by hand is
not


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/