Re: Handling >4MB kernels on cats (Was: CVS commit: src)
Nick Hudson <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:16:45 +0000
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On Wednesday 21 January 2009 13:07:37 Andrew Doran wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:52:50PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote: > > [email protected] wrote: > > > I'm quite taken by the idea of having a boot option to tell a > > > kernel to prompt to load a ramdisk after autoconfig - a > > > generalised version of what atari does now with its 'md2'. > > > > > > - It should be completely MI, so all ports benefit > > > - You gain access to all compiled in kernel drivers - eg: USB > > > - You can drop the distinction between INSTALL and GENERIC kernels > > I'd object to this because we already have an MI way to do it: have the > boot loader load miniroot.kmod. I guess someone needs to write a boot loader for CATS. Nick