On Wed, Jun 14, 2000, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> wrote:
> "James H. Cloos Jr." wrote:
> >
> > >>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> writes:
> >
> > hpa> ---> It's time to get rid of zImage once and for all. <---
> >
> > Cool. But so would be getting rid of bzImage in the general case.
> > Using a two-stage loader (unless it can be done in 1) to boot a
> > vmlinux.gz file from a filesystem would be way cool.
> >
> > Just like on (pretty much all of?) the other architectures.
> >
> > Yes?
>
> I have been working on that... however, that's a much bigger step, and I
> don't think it's time for that yet.
>
> vmlinux (.gz) in the current form would not be appropriate for booting
> on i386 though. The kernel needs a "setup" that runs in 16-bit real
> mode.
What about EFI? Is it worth it to do this when it looks like people are
moving to more sophisticated boot shell?
JE
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