Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030264AbVINQit (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:38:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030267AbVINQit (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:38:49 -0400 Received: from paleosilicon.orionmulti.com ([209.128.68.66]:31454 "EHLO paleosilicon.orionmulti.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030264AbVINQit (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:38:49 -0400 X-Envelope-From: hpa@zytor.com Message-ID: <43285204.6000504@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:38:28 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pascal.bellard@ads-lu.com CC: Frank Sorenson , riley@williams.name, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [i386 BOOT CODE] kernel bootable again References: <33542.85.68.36.53.1126619176.squirrel@212.11.36.192> <432722A1.8030302@tuxrocks.com> <43272B9D.1030301@zytor.com> <33296.85.68.36.53.1126690932.squirrel@212.11.36.192> In-Reply-To: <33296.85.68.36.53.1126690932.squirrel@212.11.36.192> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 683 Lines: 22 Pascal Bellard wrote: > > Now two solutions: > > - without this patch = linux kernel are never directly bootable > - with this patch = linux kernel is directly bootable with some > devices. > > What is the better idea ? > The former, based on the *huge* number of emails of "it doesn't work on my platform" we kept getting, and getting, and getting. It would be another matter if it was a high-value feature, but it's not. -hpa - 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/