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

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 09:01 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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.

It's just a matter of having the right "backend" programs send the
proper infos to the front end via a socket :-)

We haven't dealt with netbooting yet but I plan to do it.

Ben.