Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

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On 5/9/07, Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> wrote:
"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> writes:
We can look in /proc/ioports and see what has reserved
the video resources.  That should give us a reasonable
estimate of the video adapter.  We can do an ioctl to
the console and see how many lines and columns we have.

Reusing boot_params could be nice but if we have the information
available in other ways digging it out that way is quite possibly
better.

Another path:
LiuxBIOS+elfboot+payload, and payload is compressed elf
(vmlinux+initrd) via lzma.
and use kexec to boot final production kernel.
We don't need to use boot_params from the first tiny kernel.

YH
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