From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 04:36:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 04:36:37 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:37892 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 04:36:16 -0500 Message-ID: <3C205FBC.60307@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 01:37:00 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Jesse Pollard , Christian Koenig , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , Otto Wyss , Alexander Viro , antirez , Andreas Dilger , "Grover, Andrew" , Craig Christophel Subject: Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file / Making Linux multiboot capable and grub loading kernel modules at boot time. In-Reply-To: <200112181605.KAA00820@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> <3C204282.3000504@zytor.com> <3C2052C0.2010700@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >>>From the 10,000 foot level it looks like I am pretty safe already > except for those BIOS functions that drive the hardware. For those I > need to setup the legacy PIC back to it's default setting, and > possibly a few other hardware things. I wonder just how sensitive > the an x86 BIOS really is to changing those things... > You never know, especially since part of the BIOS might be an external SCSI or network card BIOS... -hpa