[Etherboot-developers] Merging linuxbios support....

[<ebi...@ln...>]

Having reviewed everything I have concluded that what I have been doing
with passing ``extra'' parameters from the bootloader to the OS image
for linuxBIOS is not the best way to go.  To this end I in the process
of implementing tables that can just be scanned for in memory
to get the linuxBIOS information.

With that it becomes much easier to build a single set of tools that can
handle all of the interesting cases.

I still believe there is some information (bootloader, bootloader
version, etc) that should be passed from the etherboot to the loaded
image.   In general the information is unneeded but it allows for bug
work arounds and other special case behavior.

I posted my ideas on how to accomplish this a little while ago before
I went on vacation. 

Anyway I am working on implementing those ideas and will probably have
a patch for etherboot along presently.  The first patch will just
modify how etherboot gets the memory size from linuxBIOS.  Then
I will be interested to see what we can clean up on the loader side.

Eric