Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> I am curious about the current state of play with respect to the bzImage
> size limitation
Hmm, which limitation exactly ?
> (answers like use EFI don't count because until
> implementations exist it is just a very nice set of slides and papers).
What's EFI ?
> I am interested in anything ranging from some hacks to raise the limit a
> bit to fully-featured protected mode ELF kernel image loaders, if anyone
> is working on anything like that?
See the "Load linux...from linux?" thread. Both LOBOS and bootimg should
be able to load fairly large kernels. (bootimg currently limits you to
4 MB for kernel(+initrd), but this will change; LOBOS may already be
"unlimited".)
- Werner
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