Re: [Etherboot-developers] [RFC] [PATCH] xstart32

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

> >As a prelude to doing interesting things when etherboot exits,
> >I have generated a patch that just introduces a function xstart32
> >that handles all of the 32bit exits.
> >
> >This is not mean for 5.0.6 but hopefully for the following release.
> >
> >It essentially makes all calling conventions equally easy to implement.  
> >Yell if you don't like the idea...
> 
> In principle I think it's a good idea. I'll study it at length later.
> As you suggest, it'll probably not go into 5.0.6, I don't want to risk
> instability in 5.0.6 at this late stage.

Sounds good.  Just a FYI.  The core of LinuxBIOS is getting stable 
enough that we are starting the big discussions and debates and
trial implementations on what to do for a full featured boot loader.

Etherboot comes up a lot as it is the one good solution we have so far.

That also is post 5.0.6 work but I figured it is only fair to give
a heads up.

And if we do take etherboot and evolve it into something a little more
general.  5.0.7 or 5.1 might be extremly interesting :)

Eric