Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
22 Dec 2001 17:39:26 -0800


Followup to: <E16Hwks-0001wV-00@schizo.psychosis.com>
By author: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Deja Vu: *shrug* Your "all they have to do" is quite heavy.
> (boot loader must implement full cpio/tar[/gzip}
>

cpio is trivial. tar is a bit more painful, but not too bad. gzip is
unacceptable, but should not be required.

-hpa

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