This is part of a global Linux memory/segment planning problem. There is no
way to put all the init code into a discardable memory area thrown after
boot.
> the bootrom, which then sends the necessary parameters from the BOOTP
The floppy disk drivers on our campus for example lack a boot rom ;)
> user process. So, why should we implement BOOTP into the kernel? IMHO, we
> should discuss this further.
For non boot rom cases. I hope as bzImage/modules gets further a discardable
bootp will be practical
Alan