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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 |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:04:34 +0800 |
On Jan 25, 2008 12:55 AM, Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:25:51PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> >
> > You want to add a feature that only works when you have the ability to load
> > images of an arbitrary size. However, if we had this ability we wouldn't
> > have
> > to compress core.img, or make it small in the first place. We would then
> > just create core.img of an arbitrary size, and include a memdisk of an
> > arbitrary size in it. But then we wouldn't need a feature to work around
> > the
> > size restriction in memdisk!
>
> Just discussed it with Marco on IRC, and he said we could load core.img in
> high
> memory, like in 0x100000 right away. This solves the size limit in memdisk
> which I think is the source of the problem.
>
> Of course, this collides with the OS load area, so we'd also need to add
> relocation in loader, as described in the "grub_dl_unload_all()" thread. I
> do even have unfinished code for this, although it may take a while to get it
> done properly (maybe we need to add features to memory manager or so). Does
> this work for you?
i think this is great, we don't have to worry about memdisk size, and
no need for the initrd hack anymore.
--
Bean
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, (continued)
- 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
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension,
Bean <=
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Robert Millan, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2008/01/24
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Robert Millan, 2008/01/23
Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/23