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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:15:48 -0500 From: Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@...il.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: mouse@...c.ru, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: FatELF & patents On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:54 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote: > A variant of the Sparc SILO boot loader, called TILO, was > doing this with Sparc Linux kernel images 15 or so years ago. Patent 5432937: Filing date: Aug 20, 1993 Issue date: Jul 11, 1995 According to the files' copyright header (excluding inflate.c, which is actually the gzip stuff), the project was started in 1995 or 1996. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/infosystems/ultrapenguin/sparc/misc/src/trees/tilo-0.2/src/ Rayson > > It packs a 32-bit and a 64-bit Linux kernel into one blob and figures > out which one to actually boot once it figures out what kind of > machine it is executing on. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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