Re: [RFC] x86 ELF bootable kernels/Linux booting Linux/LinuxBIOS

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Wed Jan 30 2002 - 21:48:24 EST


Eric W. Biederman wrote:

>
>>It would be convenient to be able to directly boot a bzImage,
>>but I guess elf is workable.
>
> Well that is directly booting vmlinux, and it doesn't lock you into
> booting the linux kernel which is very important to me.
>

Neither is bzImage... you can use bzImage format for other things. My
main worry about this is that it locks you into booting a single image
(as opposed to kernel+initramfs, the latter of which can be composed on
the fly if desirable), which is a huge step backwards IMNSHO.

        -hpa

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