SBS Palomar II/IV/V port

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Oct 11 11:06:22 EST 2001


On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:24:15PM -0600, Val Henson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 02:25:03PM -0700, Michael Sokolov wrote:
>
> > Some other bi_rec fixes may be needed (initrd ones are broken I think).
>
> Indeed!  This is on my list of stuff to do - straighten out once and
> for all how BI_INITRD works and then rewrite the Gemini boot process
> to use it.  It seemed like we had two interpretations:
>
> 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 thought we had agreed on 1 (and nothing uses it yet anyhow).  Tho my
memory could be hazy.

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