From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:39:05 +0200 To: Ethan Benson , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: New booter Message-Id: <19990915113905.031280@mailhost.mipsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, Sep 14, 1999, Ethan Benson 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. > -- Perso. e-mail: Work e-mail: BenH. Web : ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/