Re: MIPS Kernel size

[Peter Horton <pdh@colonel-panic.org>]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:38:18PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> > The Cobalt case is special; it's firmware could almost be the definition
> > of the term crap ...
> 
> Can't you use the firmware to load a second stage booter, which can load 
> larger
> kernels?
> 

Yes, but you still have to maintain a old style EXT2 partition just for
the firmware.

Besides, after a while your second stage loader starts to look like a
boot loader anyway, once you've added network booting of large kernels,
kernel command line support and the other things the original firmware
was missing.

P.