Re: head.S and init_task.c vs addinitrd

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Guido Guenther wrote:

> Are you telling me the only reason for the changes in init_task.c/head.S
> were made to break the elf2ecoff/addinitrd "hack"? Where exactly was
> there a hack in head.S/init_task.c. Please point me to the line of code
> since I don't understand enough about the kernel to see it.

 I meant it stopped working because it is an ugly hack.  It is too fragile
to work in all cases. 

> That's 2.5 stuff. We should not break expected behavior in 2.4.

 Agreed.

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