Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932543AbbELLRF (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2015 07:17:05 -0400 Received: from mail.melag.de ([217.6.74.107]:31971 "EHLO mail.melag.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932192AbbELLRB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2015 07:17:01 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 331 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 07:17:00 EDT Message-ID: <5551DFDE.6040905@melag.de> Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 13:11:26 +0200 From: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thiago Farina , Pavel Machek CC: linux list Subject: Re: boot loader References: <20150511221145.GC4434@amd> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Originating-IP: [192.168.57.169] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2130 Lines: 33 Am 12.05.2015 um 02:17 schrieb Thiago Farina: > Yeah. Maybe it was a right decision from Linus to isolate, focus and work > solely on kernel and not including everything else (like FreeBSD does) > that makes a usable system. Just a little sidenote: Plan9 uses a trimmed-down Kernel as bootloader, which gives interesting opportunities (eg. using various services like filesystems, shells, etc in the bootloader). With modern bootloaders like Barebox, the need for that IMHO isn't that huge anymore. OTOH, there're still several things, I'd wish to have available in the bootloader (eg. iscsi- or bnlkdev support). Anyone here, who uses a Linux kernel as bootloader / preboot environment ? cu -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult +49-151-27565287 MELAG Medizintechnik oHG Sitz Berlin Registergericht AG Charlottenburg HRA 21333 B Wichtiger Hinweis: Diese Nachricht kann vertrauliche oder nur für einen begrenzten Personenkreis bestimmte Informationen enthalten. Sie ist ausschließlich für denjenigen bestimmt, an den sie gerichtet worden ist. Wenn Sie nicht der Adressat dieser E-Mail sind, dürfen Sie diese nicht kopieren, weiterleiten, weitergeben oder sie ganz oder teilweise in irgendeiner Weise nutzen. Sollten Sie diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, so benachrichtigen Sie bitte den Absender, indem Sie auf diese Nachricht antworten. Bitte löschen Sie in diesem Fall diese Nachricht und alle Anhänge, ohne eine Kopie zu behalten. Important Notice: This message may contain confidential or privileged information. It is intended only for the person it was addressed to. If you are not the intended recipient of this email you may not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it or any part of it in any form whatsoever. If you received this email in error please notify the sender by replying and delete this message and any attachments without retaining a copy. -- 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/