From: Robert Reif <reif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:59:50 -0400 > Would it be possible to use silo to load the kernel at its > final destination like the sun bootloader aparently does? > > This seems so simple that I can't believe it hasn't been > done before so there must be issues with this approach. > > Can anyone please give me some feedback? We just never implemented this way because there was never a need for such complexity. Originally the kernel was A.OUT and we need to support relocation for the sake of network booting anyways. You will need to make the relocation case work for the sake of net booting no matter what. Otherwise large kernels will work for SILO boots but not for networking boots, which eliminates an installation scheme for a whole class of users. Why not simply make the relocating code move more than 3MB of mappings to the final location? What prevents that from working? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
