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Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension
From: |
Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:14:49 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:01:33AM +0800, Bean wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2008 12:18 AM, Bean <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Jan 23, 2008 4:54 PM, Marco Gerards <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > When is this feature useful? Can you give an example? More features
> > > can mean more bugs, more maintainance work, etc. If the feature is
> > > not worthwhile for more than one person, I am not sure if it should be
> > > included. Perhaps a better explaination of the problem to solve,
> > > instead of what the patch does might help here.
> >
> > the most important usage of external initrd is to overcome the size
> > limit of core.img.
>
> this is the new patch, now no need to modify grub-mkimage, use cat
> just as before.
Well.. even though I still don't see the motivation, I'm less concerned about
this if it's just added to lnxboot.img.
> +VARIABLE(grub_memdisk_image_addr)
> + .long 0
I recall you said use of this variable could be avoided ?
--
Robert Millan
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- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Robert Millan, 2008/01/20
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Bean, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Bean, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension,
Robert Millan <=
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Bean, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Robert Millan, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Bean, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Robert Millan, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Bean, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Robert Millan, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Bean, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Robert Millan, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Bean, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Robert Millan, 2008/01/24