Re: [PATCH 1/3] Gujin linux.kgz boot format

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> >> > may be good goal...
> >>
> >>   At least that is a way which does not involve modifying assembler
> >>  files. Slowly everybody switches to the C version which continue
> >>  to evolve (i.e. removing old BIOS calls), then the tree under
> >>  arch/i386/boot is removed and we can begin to rearrange the mapping
> >>  of "struct linux_param".
> >
> > Will your C version work with lilo and grub?
> 
>   Tricky question. In short no, it cannot.

I do not see a point, then. We have bad assembly bootup code. Adding
good C bootup code, that is incompatible with lilo/grub does nothing
to clean the mess up.
								Pavel
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