From: Peter Horton <pdh@colonel-panic.org>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: MIPS Kernel size
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 22:29:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040202222947.GB2513@skeleton-jack> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0402022033180.19699@waterleaf.sonytel.be>
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:38:18PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> > The Cobalt case is special; it's firmware could almost be the definition
> > of the term crap ...
>
> Can't you use the firmware to load a second stage booter, which can load larger
> kernels?
>
Yes, but you still have to maintain a old style EXT2 partition just for
the firmware.
Besides, after a while your second stage loader starts to look like a
boot loader anyway, once you've added network booting of large kernels,
kernel command line support and the other things the original firmware
was missing.
P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-02 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-27 14:51 MIPS Kernel size kip.r2
2004-01-27 16:10 ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-02-02 14:09 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-02 18:43 ` Karsten Merker
2004-02-02 18:57 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-02 19:38 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-02-02 19:46 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-02 19:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-02-02 19:59 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-02 20:07 ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-02-02 20:32 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-02 22:29 ` Peter Horton [this message]
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2004-02-02 16:12 Smith, Todd
2004-02-02 18:53 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-02 21:48 Smith, Todd
2004-02-03 13:41 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-02-03 15:17 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-03 14:50 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-02-03 15:18 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-03 16:52 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-02-03 17:07 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-02-03 15:16 ` Ralf Baechle
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