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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:09:42 +1000
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] PART1: Proposed init & module changes for 2.5
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 03:12:54 -0400
David Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 23 September 2001 2:37, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> Russ,
> 
> How about implementing MBS? (Bootloader module loading. IE as implmented in 
> GRUB) so we can finally have completely modular kernels?

Hi Dave,

	Why duplicate the module code in the boot loader?  Surely a tiny initrd 
or equiv is a better option here?

Rusty.
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