linux-kernel - Re: Back to the future.

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Date:	Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:00:19 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Back to the future.

Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> writes:

> Hi!
>
>> > While that would certainly be nifty, I think we're arguably starting 
>> > from the wrong point here. Why are we booting a kernel, trying to poke 
>> > the hardware back into some sort of mock-quiescent state, freeing memory 
>> > and then (finally) overwriting the entire contents of RAM rather than 
>> > just doing all of this from the bootloader?
>
> Doing it from the bootloader sounds attractive... but it is lot of
> work. I'm essentially using linux as a bootloader.
>
> Patch for grub welcome.

Well.  We actually have first class support for using linux as a
bootloader.  So you could use linux and do whatever dance you are
doing from a bootloader if you felt the desire.

That might make the dance a little easier.

Eric
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