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Re: PC STARTUP OPTIONS
- From: Nick Garnett <nickg at redhat dot com>
- To: Stephen Polkowski <stephen at centtech dot com>
- Cc: eocs <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 01 May 2002 10:32:07 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] PC STARTUP OPTIONS
- References: <3CCEE24F.4080508@centtech.com>
Stephen Polkowski <stephen@centtech.com> writes:
>
> Would anyone be interested in this change? I could probably
> have this working in a few days. Any takers?
>
To be honest, a potentially easier and more useful approach would be
to add support for loading from the GRUB bootloader. Then we will be
able to load Redboot/eCos from a filesystem on a multi-boot machine.
GRUB can load ELF files directly, anywhere into RAM, and does the
switch to protected mode before calling the executable.
--
Nick Garnett, eCos Kernel Architect
Red Hat, Cambridge, UK
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