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Re: [PATCH] Determine the linux loader command at runtime
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Colin Watson |
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Re: [PATCH] Determine the linux loader command at runtime |
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Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:22:21 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 09:24:42AM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> There are numerous ways to load Linux kernel depending on the platform
> customs.
> Pick the correct one at runtime, so that legacy platform interfaces don't
> break
> and newer platforms use their native ways of bootstrapping Linux.
We (Ubuntu) have been using the 32-bit entry point on i386-pc for quite
some time, and I'm fairly sure we rely on it to make gfxpayload work for
flicker-free boot. It looks like this will break that; please don't.
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