From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
kmh@nerdshack.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de, lermen@fgan.de, davej@redhat.com,
cebbert@redhat.com
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: loadlin incompatible with 2.6.23 kernels
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:16:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4977BAC2.3060009@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090121234347.GI5237@const.famille.thibault.fr>
Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately LOADLIN hasn't been updated for a very long time, and
>> there doesn't seem to be much interest in maintaining it.
>
> I've fixed loadlin in debian and actually plan to maintain it upstream.
> I had to patch it quite a bit to make it compilable by yasm, but it can
> now boot recent big kernels & initrds.
>
Excellent news! Is there a new upstream location (or do you need one)?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-22 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-28 22:00 PROBLEM: loadlin incompatible with 2.6.23 kernels Kenneth Howlett
2007-12-03 2:13 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-01-21 23:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-21 23:43 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-01-22 0:16 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-01-22 0:24 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-02-08 2:08 ` Samuel Thibault
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2007-12-04 11:54 Etienne Lorrain
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