Re: [PATCH] Move kern/loader.c to boot.mod and add preboot_support (was Re: Sendkey patch)

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:59:02PM +0200, Javier Martín wrote:
> El lun, 08-09-2008 a las 23:25 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen escribió:
> > Javier Martín wrote:
> > > El lun, 08-09-2008 a las 22:48 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen escribió:
> > >> phcoder wrote:
> > >>> Hello. As I said in another email there is no need for it. I send a
> > >>> patch for it.
> > >> Doesn't this break our rescue mode ?
> > > How would it? As with other commands, there would be two versions of it,
> > > one for rescue and one for normal. Besides, what is the point in having
> > > the "boot" command in kernel -and thus always available- if you can't
> > > load a kernel to boot?
> > 
> > You may want to chainload something?
> Isn't "chainloader" also a command external to the kernel? I recall
> seeing _chain.mod (rescue) and chain.mod (normal). So, as long as those
> don't go with core.img, you won't chainload a thing.

It is.  We just happen to load it by default on i386-pc.

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