Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file

Alexander Viro
2001-12-23T02:10:57Z

On 22 Dec 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Followup to: <E16Hwks-0001wV-00@schizo.psychosis.com>
> By author: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Deja Vu: *shrug* Your "all they have to do" is quite heavy.
> > (boot loader must implement full cpio/tar[/gzip}
> >
>
> cpio is trivial. tar is a bit more painful, but not too bad. gzip is
> unacceptable, but should not be required.

tar is ugly as hell and not going to be supported on the kernel side.