Re: IPV4 as module?

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 der.eremit@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:20:07 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel:
> 
> >> That's not all correct. You can fit 700 MB data on a CD-ROM, but booting
> >> is still emulated from a 1.44 MB floppy (or some other floppy/HDD
> >> images, but many BIOSses won't accept those (or handle them correctly)).
> > Baloney.  Most BIOSes support "no emulation" booting these days; in fact,
> > there are more that don't do floppy emulation correctly than the few very
> > old BIOSes which didn't do no emulation.
> 
> Even if wanting to support BIOSes that don't do "no emulation", all it
> takes is simple initrd to locate and mount the iso9660 filesystem off the
> real device - and that easily fits on a 2.88 MB floppy image used for
> emulated floppy boot. Should also fit on an 1.44 MB image, although I've
> not seen a BIOS yet that didn't like a 2.88 MB image on a CD.

But back to topic .. can someone say something more and detailed about
things which dissallow now separation IPV4 stack in module ?

kloczek
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