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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file
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On 22 Dec 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Followup to:  <E16Hwks-0001wV-00@schizo.psychosis.com>
> By author:    Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > 
> > Deja Vu: *shrug*  Your "all they have to do" is quite heavy.
> > (boot loader must implement full cpio/tar[/gzip}
> > 
> 
> cpio is trivial.  tar is a bit more painful, but not too bad.  gzip is
> unacceptable, but should not be required.

tar is ugly as hell and not going to be supported on the kernel side.

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