Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:57:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:57:26 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:30984 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:57:10 -0500 Message-ID: <3C5C98E6.2090701@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 17:56:54 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: "Erik A. Hendriks" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Werner Almesberger Subject: Re: [RFC] x86 ELF bootable kernels/Linux booting Linux/LinuxBIOS In-Reply-To: <3C586355.A396525B@zip.com.au> <3C58B078.3070803@zytor.com> <3C58CAE0.4040102@zytor.com> <20020131103516.I26855@lanl.gov> <3C59DB56.2070004@zytor.com> <3C5A5F25.3090101@zytor.com> <3C5ADDD1.6000608@zytor.com> <3C5C54D2.2030700@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > It can be argued that general purpose systems have enough ram that > putting drivers for all mass produced devices in ram is possible, and > practical. But that is a cop out. > Indeed. Worse, it may not be possible for the *boot medium* to hold all those devices... -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/