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From: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
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        Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: RE: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:53:34 -0800
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> From: Otto Wyss [mailto:otto.wyss@bluewin.ch]
> You have to admit that a multiple streams file format 
> (regardless which kind)
> would be a good solution to the booting of a modular kernel. 
> Anyway this format
> has to be supported by the kernel itself and in some extend 
> by any boot loader.
> So anybody has to write a kernel module for the cpio/tar 
> format and help with
> implementing it into  boot loaders. Maybe you could give some help. 

I don't think multiple streams is a good idea, but did you all see the patch
by Christian Koenig to let the bootloader load modules? That seems to solve
the problem nicely.

Regards -- Andy
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