From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:20:10 -0400 Message-ID: <1565FDF8-3BC6-4E46-93E1-48F40C7E1F8D@mac.com> References: <200709211201.24475.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <200709211905.23946.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <200709212337.53043.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <20070924173223.GL5386@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Denys Vlasenko , Andi Kleen , David Miller , jeff@garzik.org, mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Lennart Sorensen Return-path: Received: from smtpoutm.mac.com ([17.148.16.77]:52341 "EHLO smtpoutm.mac.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760189AbXIYEU0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:20:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070924173223.GL5386@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sep 24, 2007, at 13:32:23, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:37:52PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: >> But I compile net/* into bzImage. I like netbooting :) > > Isn't it possible to netboot with an initramfs image? I am pretty > sure I have seen some systems do exactly that. Yeah, I've got Debian boxes that have never *not* netbooted (one Dell Op^?^?Craptiplex box whose BIOS and ACPI sucks so bad it can't even load GRUB/LILO, although Windows somehow works fine). So they boot PXELinux using the PXE boot ROM on the NICs and it loads both a kernel and an initramfs into memory. Kernel is stock Debian and hardly has enough built-in to spit at you, let alone find network/ disks, but it manages to load everything it needs off the automagically-generated initramfs. Cheers, Kyle Moffett