Re: [RFC] x86 ELF bootable kernels/Linux booting Linux/LinuxBIOS

H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-31T02:49:41Z

Eric W. Biederman wrote:

>
>>It would be convenient to be able to directly boot a bzImage,
>>but I guess elf is workable.
>
> Well that is directly booting vmlinux, and it doesn't lock you into
> booting the linux kernel which is very important to me.
>

Neither is bzImage... you can use bzImage format for other things. My
main worry about this is that it locks you into booting a single image
(as opposed to kernel+initramfs, the latter of which can be composed on
the fly if desirable), which is a huge step backwards IMNSHO.

-hpa