Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272404AbTHMMYL (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:24:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272568AbTHMMYL (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:24:11 -0400 Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com ([192.108.102.143]:11691 "EHLO smtp-send.myrealbox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272404AbTHMMXd (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:23:33 -0400 Message-ID: <3F3A2DB9.7030601@home.ro> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:23:21 +0300 From: Nufarul Alb User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: multibooting the linux kernel References: <3F396C04.90608@home.ro> <20030813072053.A25803@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20030813072053.A25803@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1813 Lines: 53 Christoph Hellwig wrote: >On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:36:52AM +0300, Nufarul Alb wrote: > > >>There is a patch for the kernel that make it able to preload modules >>before the acutal booting. >> >>I wonder if this feature will be included in the official linux kernel. >> >> > >Mutliboot support would be nice, not sure about the module loading thing. > >But there's a bunch of issues with the paches: > >(1) please port to 2.6 first because > (a) there's not chance this will get into 2.4 > (b) 2.6 has the inkernel module loader so you don't have to duplicate > so much loader code. >(2) please convert from GNU to Linux style >(3) please use the predefined __ASSEMBLY__ instead of ASM > >- >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/ > > > Those are not my patches. They belong to a certain Christian Koenig. He doesn't mantain them any more and I'm searching for someone to mantain this project. I know very little about kernel programming, but I liked the idea of having such a feature in the kernel. It gives more freedom in compiling the kernel. Maybe one day we would have the main piece of the kernel as a standard and only have to recompile modules. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MICROKERNELS. Multibooting is a different stuff. SO, if somebody knows who might want to update this patches, it would be great. Thanks!! - 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/