Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:24:47 +0100
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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       lermen@fgan.de, davej@redhat.com, cebbert@redhat.com
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: loadlin incompatible with 2.6.23 kernels
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H. Peter Anvin, le Wed 21 Jan 2009 16:16:02 -0800, a ?crit :
> Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >>
> >>Unfortunately LOADLIN hasn't been updated for a very long time, and 
> >>there doesn't seem to be much interest in maintaining it.
> >
> >I've fixed loadlin in debian and actually plan to maintain it upstream.
> >I had to patch it quite a bit to make it compilable by yasm, but it can
> >now boot recent big kernels & initrds.
> >
> 
> Excellent news!  Is there a new upstream location (or do you need one)?

Not yet, there will be when I take some time to settle one on
thefreecat.org.  In the meanwhile you can just get it from debian.

Samuel
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