[Cbe-oss-dev] PS3 Linux boot loader discussions

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thursday 11 January 2007 00:43, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> >  4) Bootable media type and it's format
> >    - Supported bootable media types are up to boot loader implementation.
> >    - When bootloader supports following media type, it needs to
> >      support corresponding Std. format at least.
> 
> Anything that the kernel can mount in fact. Jeremy started experimenting
> with a mecanism to hook on udev to get notifications of any new device
> and send that to the front-end.

What about sources that can't be directly mounted? On the network side, that
at least includes tftp, but maybe also http, ftp and smbclient. It would
be nice if the user can just type a URL to boot if he's able to set up
a download source in some way.

	Arnd <><