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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:07:42PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:

> > Oh, it boots everything as long as it's a compress ELF executable named
> > /vmlinux.gz
> 
> AFAIK it also boots such a kernel from a NFS(!) export.

Well possible - the firmware contains a Linux kernel of approx 2.0.30
vintage, so that would have been easy to arrange.  When I kernel work for
Cobalt however booting from disk and over serial were the only two
available options.

  Ralf