From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
To: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: New booter
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:39:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990915113905.031280@mailhost.mipsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v04210105b404ed46f043@[192.168.0.1]>
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999, Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
>yes it does this on all machines, and frankly I think its a
>disgusting kludge, that would be OK as a absolute LAST RESORT *after*
>all attempts to get a proper booter working have failed.
>
>linux in my view is about doing things better, and doing them *right*
>Linus himself is fairly picky about doing things right instead of
>doing a kludge that `works'
>
>Apple's attitude seems to be `why do it right when a kludge will do?'
>I do not want to see linux choose the same philosophy.
>From Apple perspective, it's not a kludge since the final MacOS X will
boot from HFS+ partitions, so it seems logical to have the bootinfo on an
HFS volume.
>sorry to be blunt but just because apple has chosen to kludge their
>bootloader does NOT mean that is what we should do.
>
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <v04011701b404e6cd4493@[199.174.193.101]>
[not found] ` <v04210105b404ed46f043@[192.168.0.1]>
1999-09-15 9:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
1999-09-15 9:58 ` New booter Ethan Benson
1999-09-15 17:53 ` Kevyn Shortell
1999-09-15 18:03 ` David A. Gatwood
1999-09-15 22:40 ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-15 22:56 ` Tom Rini
1999-09-16 7:50 ` New booter-New world Sean
1999-09-16 11:46 ` David Riley
1999-09-16 17:05 ` Kevyn Shortell
1999-09-16 23:46 ` Sean
1999-09-15 23:03 ` New booter Dan Burcaw
1999-09-15 22:37 ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-15 23:02 ` Peter Bierman
1999-09-16 3:18 ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-16 3:37 ` David D. Kilzer
1999-09-15 23:10 ` Wolfgang Denk
1999-09-16 8:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
1999-09-16 8:38 ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-16 10:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-09-16 17:01 ` David A. Gatwood
1999-09-16 18:48 ` Michel Lanners
1999-09-15 23:15 ` erik cameron
1999-09-16 3:50 ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-16 4:21 ` Dan Burcaw
1999-09-15 17:22 ` David A. Gatwood
1999-09-15 22:41 ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-15 17:39 ` Peter Bierman
1999-09-15 22:27 ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-15 22:47 ` David N. Welton
1999-09-15 23:01 ` Dan Burcaw
1999-09-15 22:48 ` Peter Bierman
1999-09-15 23:19 ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-15 23:48 ` Tom Rini
1999-09-16 0:23 ` David A. Gatwood
1999-09-16 4:02 ` Sean
1999-09-16 5:42 ` David A. Gatwood
1999-09-16 3:59 ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-16 7:42 ` New booter (about quik) Michel Lanners
1999-09-17 0:32 ` Paul Mackerras
1999-09-17 1:46 ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-17 15:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] <199909170500.AAA08016@lists.linuxppc.org>
1999-09-17 16:07 ` New booter Derek Homeier
1999-09-18 12:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-09-14 9:37 Ethan Benson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-09-14 9:18 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-09-14 9:28 ` Ethan Benson
1999-09-14 9:10 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-09-13 20:37 Kevin Puetz
1999-09-13 22:08 ` Ethan Benson
[not found] <19990913192231.002595>
1999-09-13 17:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-09-13 19:51 ` Andreas Bogk
1999-09-13 18:12 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1999-09-13 17:22 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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