Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 12:03:25 EST


On 19 Dec 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> I have alarm bells ringing in my gut saying there are pieces of your
> proposal that are on the edge of being overly complex... But without
> source I can't really say. Arbitrary NULL padding between images is
> cool but why?

        Alignment that might be wanted by loaders. Take that with hpa - for
all I care it's a non-issue. while(!*p) p++; added before p = handle_part(p);
in the main loop...

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