Re: Comments wanted: Linux/i386 boot protocol doc

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Mon Jul 17 2000 - 03:51:52 EST


hpa@transmeta.com said:
> It is not always sufficient -- when using M-systems flash or PXE the
> EBDA is several hundred K in size. There is no way to support this
> with the old kernels which require mucking with the 0x90000 segment.
> Hence the revised protocol.

With M-Systems flash you don't need to use their appalling built-in
firmware which eats RAM. You can happily stick Grub in there instead, and
we've almost completed teaching Grub to drive the beast too, which makes
the whole thing actually useful.

--
dwmw2

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