From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tar vs cpio (was: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file)
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 11:28:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C26304B.3090205@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112230849550.23300-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> I doubt that extra utilities are worth the effort. Said that, layout
> of the damn thing is nowhere near the top of the list of things that
> worry me - as long as it's well-defined, can be handled from userland
> and can be easily unpacked I'm OK with it.
[...]
>
> Frankly, holy wars over layout of archive look rather pointless. _That_
> is trivial to change at any point until the moment when it hits the main
> tree. Getting late-boot code clean is the real problem.
>
Agreed, of course. I just happen to be approaching this from this end,
with considering what kind of boot loader changes are desirable.
-hpa
P.S. As far as the umsdos pivot thing is concerned, I always considered
it to be a bug that it was only applicable to the root. I would like to
suggest making it a mount option instead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-23 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-17 22:10 Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file Grover, Andrew
2001-12-18 2:31 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-18 5:46 ` Craig Christophel
2001-12-23 0:28 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 0:44 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 1:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 2:10 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-23 3:00 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 3:52 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-23 4:41 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-12-23 5:52 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 7:16 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-12-23 8:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 12:22 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-23 20:58 ` Erik Mouw
2001-12-23 9:14 ` tar vs cpio (was: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file) H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-22 19:53 ` T. A.
2001-12-23 19:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 9:51 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-12-23 9:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 12:01 ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-12-23 14:28 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-23 19:28 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-12-23 20:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-18 15:26 ` Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file / Making Linux multiboot capable and grub loading kernel modules at boot time Christian Koenig
2001-12-18 18:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
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