From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 10 Oct 01 13:13:38 PDT From: msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG (Michael Sokolov) Message-Id: <0110102013.AA25096@ivan.Harhan.ORG> To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: SBS Palomar II/IV/V port Cc: paulus@samba.org, val@nmt.edu Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Val Henson 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? -- Michael Sokolov 5791 VAN ALLEN WAY Software Engineer CARLSBAD CA 92008-7321 USA SBS Technologies, Inc. Phone: +1-760-438-6900 x2347 Communications Products or 1-888-SBS-COMM x2347 Fax: +1-760-438-6985 E-mail: msokolov@sbs.com or msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/