On Tue 2015-05-12 13:11:26, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > Am 12.05.2015 um 02:17 schrieb Thiago Farina: > > >Yeah. Maybe it was a right decision from Linus to isolate, focus and work > >solely on kernel and not including everything else (like FreeBSD does) > >that makes a usable system. > > Just a little sidenote: > > Plan9 uses a trimmed-down Kernel as bootloader, which gives interesting > opportunities (eg. using various services like filesystems, shells, etc > in the bootloader). > > With modern bootloaders like Barebox, the need for that IMHO isn't > that huge anymore. OTOH, there're still several things, I'd wish to > have available in the bootloader (eg. iscsi- or bnlkdev support). > > Anyone here, who uses a Linux kernel as bootloader / preboot > environment ?
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