Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754577AbZJZWPq (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:15:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754384AbZJZWPq (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:15:46 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.153]:41001 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754365AbZJZWPp (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:15:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=wEAhWtxvUu1jvQKdTCVrgoofMqeZWlXvGsAA37KyMKvLTcW0d6xiijrDDs3R1T5+ME 3PBiOLaphRoTkZwZyOK/qbsNOpyeXKK++Lpmu/g8oMfzkCqozNTwdaBagC/DYTlB5Sas SwRIUD4cVPWi+Pnp/L1oSdm7E35ao55e5tN9o= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20091026.145428.127892659.davem@davemloft.net> References: <73a01bf20910260850v215385e6q2cbbf9133acd5e1e@mail.gmail.com> <4AE5C7C0.3060305@mayc.ru> <73a01bf20910261059j74bb37a9td472efc21c5440ca@mail.gmail.com> <20091026.145428.127892659.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:15:48 -0500 Message-ID: <73a01bf20910261515i7ae71042t4cf76d8d677b8944@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: FatELF & patents From: Rayson Ho To: David Miller Cc: mouse@mayc.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 934 Lines: 27 On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:54 PM, David Miller wrote: > A variant of the Sparc SILO boot loader, called TILO, was > doing this with Sparc Linux kernel images 15 or so years ago. Patent 5432937: Filing date: Aug 20, 1993 Issue date: Jul 11, 1995 According to the files' copyright header (excluding inflate.c, which is actually the gzip stuff), the project was started in 1995 or 1996. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/infosystems/ultrapenguin/sparc/misc/src/trees/tilo-0.2/src/ Rayson > > It packs a 32-bit and a 64-bit Linux kernel into one blob and figures > out which one to actually boot once it figures out what kind of > machine it is executing on. > -- 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/