Re[2]: [Etherboot-developers] Q: does xstart work?

[Anselm M. H. <an...@ho...>]

Hello Eric, list,

EWB> Probably the fun part is keeping track of which areas have been allocated
EWB> to the partially loaded image.
 
>> I'm not so concerned about the text segment size of Etherboot when
>> Etherboot is converted to run high. In the current version the main
>> concern is the 48kB limitation. I think there are few machines that
>> can't spare a couple of hundred kB from the top of memory during the
>> image loading phase.  One is not supposed to load memory to brim anyway,
>> Linux will need room to expand when it gains control.

EWB> Except when you have a ramdisk.  But a sane implemenation will load
EWB> the ramdisk low, and then push it up higher if required.  Though I seem
EWB> to like the insane varieties.

As I see it, Eric, you used the last room for just beyond land's end
for SLAM downloaded data stuff. BTW, I copied that idea, so the last
[image-block-num]*[image-block-size] bytes of memory are used for that
purpose in TFTM too. No problem to spare the last say 300kB, but one
must not forget!

Best regards,
 Anselm                            mailto:an...@ho...