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Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension
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Bean |
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Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension |
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Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:24:37 +0800 |
On Jan 24, 2008 3:14 AM, Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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 ?
This variable can't be avoided. it's used by grub_arch_memdisk_addr to
return the address of initrd. however, i can copy initrd to the
location to make it look like core.img load it, but that means an
extra memory copy.
--
Bean
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, (continued)
- 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, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension,
Bean <=
- 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
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Robert Millan, 2008/01/24