Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751182AbVJJToB (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:44:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751183AbVJJToB (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:44:01 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:58074 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751182AbVJJToA (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:44:00 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Kalin KOZHUHAROV Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Gujin linux.kgz boot format Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:35:06 +0900 Message-ID: References: <2031.192.168.201.6.1128591983.squirrel@pc300> <20051007144631.GA1294@elf.ucw.cz> <2520.192.168.201.6.1128943428.squirrel@pc300> <20051010115641.GA2983@elf.ucw.cz> <3125.192.168.201.6.1128949772.squirrel@pc300> <20051010131925.GA19256@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <3768.192.168.201.6.1128954688.squirrel@pc300> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s175249.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <3768.192.168.201.6.1128954688.squirrel@pc300> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1376 Lines: 33 Etienne Lorrain wrote: >>>>It seems to work okay here. Now, rewriting current boot system into C >>>>may be good goal... >>> >>> At least that is a way which does not involve modifying assembler >>> files. Slowly everybody switches to the C version which continue >>> to evolve (i.e. removing old BIOS calls), then the tree under >>> arch/i386/boot is removed and we can begin to rearrange the mapping >>> of "struct linux_param". >> >>Will your C version work with lilo and grub? > > > Tricky question. In short no, it cannot. [snip a long explaination of why this is practically impossible] > Sorry I cannot be compatible with them, please note that > Gujin is also GPL. So you are saying: "Dump GRUB and lilo, use Gujin!" ?? I don't think anybody will agree with that even if it is a better way in some way. Until some level of compatibility is guaranteed with the currently de facto loaders, at least I cannot support this idea in any way. Discussing that with GRUB and lilo devs, might be an idea, but who knows. Kalin. -- |[ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ]| +-> http://ThinRope.net/ <-+ |[ ______________________ ]| - 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/