From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: pascal.bellard@ads-lu.com
Cc: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com>,
riley@williams.name, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [i386 BOOT CODE] kernel bootable again
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:38:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43285204.6000504@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33296.85.68.36.53.1126690932.squirrel@212.11.36.192>
Pascal Bellard wrote:
>
> Now two solutions:
>
> - without this patch = linux kernel are never directly bootable
> - with this patch = linux kernel is directly bootable with some
> devices.
>
> What is the better idea ?
>
The former, based on the *huge* number of emails of "it doesn't work on
my platform" we kept getting, and getting, and getting.
It would be another matter if it was a high-value feature, but it's not.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-14 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-13 13:46 [i386 BOOT CODE] kernel bootable again Pascal Bellard
2005-09-13 19:04 ` Frank Sorenson
2005-09-13 19:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-14 9:42 ` Pascal Bellard
2005-09-14 9:55 ` Martin Mares
2005-09-14 16:38 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-09-17 15:26 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-09-17 15:56 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-09-17 16:19 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-09-19 2:13 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-09-14 9:52 ` Pascal Bellard
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2005-09-20 17:13 Etienne Lorrain
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