SBS Palomar II/IV/V port

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Thu Oct 11 09:57:20 EST 2001


Val Henson writes:

> 1. The BI_INITRD boot record contains the start address and the size
>    of the initrd.
>
> 2. The BI_INITRD boot record contains the entire initrd itself (as a
>    really large boot record).
>
> I have no preference either way, I just want someone to tell me which
> way we're going to do it. :)

I think 1 is preferable, if you have 1 you can actually do 2 as well
in fact (just have a large record with an address/size record at the
front with the address pointing into the record).

Paul.

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