Re: head.S and init_task.c vs addinitrd

[Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:13:42PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> 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.
I admit it's fragile but I'm still puzzled why the changes broke it and
if we can revert those changes on the linux_2_4 branch.
 -- Guido