From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <weigelt@melag.de>
Cc: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>,
linux list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: boot loader
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 09:02:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150513070232.GA19700@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5551DFDE.6040905@melag.de>
On Tue 2015-05-12 13:11:26, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> Am 12.05.2015 um 02:17 schrieb Thiago Farina:
>
> >Yeah. Maybe it was a right decision from Linus to isolate, focus and work
> >solely on kernel and not including everything else (like FreeBSD does)
> >that makes a usable system.
>
> Just a little sidenote:
>
> Plan9 uses a trimmed-down Kernel as bootloader, which gives interesting
> opportunities (eg. using various services like filesystems, shells, etc
> in the bootloader).
>
> With modern bootloaders like Barebox, the need for that IMHO isn't
> that huge anymore. OTOH, there're still several things, I'd wish to
> have available in the bootloader (eg. iscsi- or bnlkdev support).
>
> Anyone here, who uses a Linux kernel as bootloader / preboot
> environment ?
Yes. See kexec.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-13 7:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-28 15:12 boot loader Thiago Farina
2015-04-28 21:49 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-28 23:44 ` Thiago Farina
2015-04-29 2:17 ` Ken Moffat
2015-04-29 8:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-05-11 22:11 ` Pavel Machek
2015-05-12 0:17 ` Thiago Farina
2015-05-12 11:11 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2015-05-13 7:02 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2015-05-13 7:53 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2015-05-13 7:56 ` Pavel Machek
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-22 9:58 Executable delay James Bates
2003-12-22 11:59 ` Boot Loader Kevin A. Sapp
2003-12-22 13:08 ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-12-09 6:05 Erik Christiansen
2002-12-09 7:43 ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-12-10 7:54 ` Erik Christiansen
2002-04-22 12:43 boot loader Westerman, Mark
2002-04-20 12:37 Russell Coker
2002-04-20 15:24 ` Ivan Pulleyn
2002-04-20 18:14 ` Russell Coker
2002-04-22 11:48 ` Stephen Smalley
2002-04-22 19:58 ` Russell Coker
2002-04-22 20:39 ` Stephen Smalley
2002-04-22 22:08 ` Russell Coker
2002-04-22 22:27 ` Stephen Smalley
2002-04-22 22:45 ` Russell Coker
2002-04-23 5:43 ` Tom
2002-04-23 11:55 ` Russell Coker
2002-04-23 12:20 ` Tom
2002-04-23 12:44 ` Russell Coker
2002-04-23 15:36 ` Tom
2002-04-23 16:50 ` Russell Coker
2002-04-23 17:03 ` Stephen Smalley
2002-04-23 5:40 ` Tom
[not found] <36E192B5.6C18381B@noaa.gov>
1999-03-07 1:04 ` Cort Dougan
1999-03-08 10:14 ` Gabriel Paubert
1999-03-08 19:33 ` Cort Dougan
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