From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:32:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from purplechoc.demon.co.uk ([IPv6:::ffff:80.176.224.106]:46464 "EHLO skeleton-jack.localnet") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 22:32:56 +0000 Received: from pdh by skeleton-jack.localnet with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AnmZf-0000gR-00 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:29:47 +0000 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 22:29:47 +0000 To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: MIPS Kernel size Message-ID: <20040202222947.GB2513@skeleton-jack> References: <1075215091.40167af364b77@imp1-a.free.fr> <20040202140925.GB22008@linux-mips.org> <20040202184325.GE913@excalibur.cologne.de> <20040202185726.GB23667@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Peter Horton Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 4244 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: pdh@colonel-panic.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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.