On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:07:48PM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: > > Is this functionality missing from the PPC or is it just convention to > let the bootloader handle this?
the bootloader handles this on i386 too, your just missing the fact that zImage and bzImage kernels are really a 16 bit i386 BIOS bootloader with a gzipped kernel stuck to the end. > My problem with having the bootloader do this is that we're writing our > own bootloader and I don't want to make it any more complex than it has > to be. look at the existing `piggyback' bootloaders powerpc already has, there is one for all sub-archetectures. linux/arch/ppc/boot/* -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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