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From: msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG (Michael Sokolov)
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Cc: paulus@samba.org, val@nmt.edu
Subject: Re: SBS Palomar II/IV/V port
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 01 13:13:38 PDT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0110102013.AA25096@ivan.Harhan.ORG> (raw)


Val Henson <val@nmt.edu> wrote:

> Indeed!  This is on my list of stuff to do - straighten out once and
> for all how BI_INITRD works and then rewrite the Gemini boot process
> to use it.  It seemed like we had two interpretations:
>
> 1. The BI_INITRD boot record contains the start address and the size
>    of the initrd.
>
> 2. The BI_INITRD boot record contains the entire initrd itself (as a
>    really large boot record).
>
> I have no preference either way, I just want someone to tell me which
> way we're going to do it. :)

I really need to be able to have the initrd image located anywhere, forcing it
to be part of the bi_recs list is unacceptable. But if someone really wants
option 2, maybe we can have two different bi_recs to suit everyone?

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             reply	other threads:[~2001-10-10 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-10 20:13 Michael Sokolov [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-12  1:53 SBS Palomar II/IV/V port Michael Sokolov
     [not found] <0110092125.AA22665@ivan.Harhan.ORG>
2001-10-10 18:24 ` Val Henson
2001-10-10 21:30   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-11  1:05     ` Tom Rini
2001-10-10 23:57   ` Paul Mackerras
2001-10-11  1:06   ` Tom Rini
2001-10-11 13:11     ` Peter Bergner
2001-10-11 23:18   ` Tom Rini
2001-10-12 16:26     ` Peter Bergner

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