From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:23:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801242223.13091.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0f59980801240349k355e08f7w214c6d7cc2bcf303@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 24 January 2008 12:49, Bean wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2008 7:32 PM, Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> wrote:
> > Sorry, my question was confusing; what I meant is, where is it located
> > when core.img is started. But Just checked in our Linux loader, and it
> > seems to be at a very high address.
> >
> > However, a very high address doesn't garantee that it won't be
> > overwritten by lzo decompression, just makes it less likely.
> >
> > Overall, this is why I don't like having to stick to a particular boot
> > mechanism. If our goal is overcome the size limit in memdisk, why not
> > design the boot mechanism ourselves?
>
> I'm not familiar with multiboot spec, does it support arbitrary kernel size
> ?
Why not? ;)
The theoretical limit is that defined by an architecture, such as 4GB in
32-bit addressing. If you find a stronger limit, it must be an implementation
limit.
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-24 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-29 9:05 [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension Bean
2007-12-30 13:48 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-20 23:24 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-22 4:25 ` Bean
2008-01-22 13:57 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-22 16:22 ` Bean
2008-01-22 16:51 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-22 17:17 ` Bean
2008-01-22 19:53 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-23 8:54 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-23 16:18 ` Bean
2008-01-23 19:01 ` Bean
2008-01-23 19:14 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-23 19:24 ` Bean
2008-01-23 20:15 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-23 21:04 ` Bean
2008-01-23 21:15 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-24 3:40 ` Bean
2008-01-24 11:32 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-24 11:49 ` Bean
2008-01-24 14:25 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-24 14:57 ` Bean
2008-01-24 15:16 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-24 16:55 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-24 17:04 ` Bean
2008-01-24 17:21 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-24 18:06 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-24 21:23 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2008-01-23 19:10 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-23 8:48 ` Marco Gerards
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