Re: [PATCH] Move kern/loader.c to boot.mod and add preboot_support (was Re: Sendkey patch)

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:11:33PM +0200, Javier Martín wrote:
> El lun, 08-09-2008 a las 22:48 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen escribió:
> > phcoder wrote:
> > > Hello. As I said in another email there is no need for it. I send a
> > > patch for it.
> > 
> > Doesn't this break our rescue mode ?
> How would it? As with other commands, there would be two versions of it,
> one for rescue and one for normal. Besides, what is the point in having
> the "boot" command in kernel -and thus always available- if you can't
> load a kernel to boot?

Vladimir, you're proposing an important change because it modifies the goals
of the rescue mode, but I see there's neither significant support for or
against your proposal.

I think it would help if you provide numbers on how much size do kernel and
boot.mod have before and after the proposed change (on i386-pc).

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