Re: Comments wanted: Linux/i386 boot protocol doc
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:31:46 -0700
David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> hpa@transmeta.com said:
> > It is not always sufficient -- when using M-systems flash or PXE the
> > EBDA is several hundred K in size. There is no way to support this
> > with the old kernels which require mucking with the 0x90000 segment.
> > Hence the revised protocol.
>
> With M-Systems flash you don't need to use their appalling built-in
> firmware which eats RAM. You can happily stick Grub in there instead, and
> we've almost completed teaching Grub to drive the beast too, which makes
> the whole thing actually useful.
>
... assuming GRUB boots from whatever you want to boot from. This is
exactly why relying on ad hoc device drivers in the boot loader doesn't
really solve the problem.
-hpa
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