Re: [Etherboot-developers] [RFC] Loading Arbitrary images.

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ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >> No, all memory use is confined to 0x90000 to 0x9ffff, except for a
> >> couple of locations in the floppy boot block.
> >
> >O.k. Cool that is what it felt like.  If that is the case
> >then it ``should be'' fairly straight forward to implement.  I'll
> >give it a look in a little bit.
> 
> But also the loader/decompressor that moves Etherboot from ROM to its
> execution address uses temporary memory at 0x80000 upwards.

I just looked at it to see what it would take.  The nasty part
with etherboot are the multiple exit points.  With each exit point
passing data with a different format.  So I would probably need to
modify each exit point out of the way...  

So at this point if I implemented it I would probably implement a
different elf loader.  And then let those who cared about their weird
modifications to the elf loader either use the old one or merge with
me.

Eric