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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Subject: Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file
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On 19 Dec 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> I have alarm bells ringing in my gut saying there are pieces of your
> proposal that are on the edge of being overly complex... But without
> source I can't really say.  Arbitrary NULL padding between images is
> cool but why?

	Alignment that might be wanted by loaders.  Take that with hpa - for
all I care it's a non-issue.  while(!*p) p++; added before p = handle_part(p);
in the main loop...

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