From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, marcelo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux/i386 boot protocol version 2.03
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 13:56:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C13DDF5.2050303@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200112090922.BAA11252@tazenda.transmeta.com> <m17krww8ky.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 2) If we use units of kilobytes instead of bytes for this we don't
> loose any precision and gain the ability to put a ramdisk in high
> memory without bumping the protocol version.
Thought about it some more, and then realized we would have to do a lot
more overhaul of the boot protocol than this to support initrd in highmem
... and we'd still not be able to actually use it on any real
configuration. Thanks, but no thanks.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-09 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-09 9:22 Linux/i386 boot protocol version 2.03 H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-09 18:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-12-09 21:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-09 22:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-12-09 23:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-09 23:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-12-09 21:56 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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