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From: andre.przywara@linaro•org (Andre Przywara)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PROPOSAL] ARM/FDT: passing multiple binaries to a kernel
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:14:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5226F9E0.9070307@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378284955.17510.64.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com>

On 09/04/2013 10:55 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 10:43 +0200, Andre Przywara wrote:
>
>> I am about to write up a more elaborate technical rationale describing
>> the problems with multiboot on ARM:
>>
>> https://wiki.linaro.org/AndrePrzywara/Multiboot
>
> Doesn't seem to exist? A search for "mulitboot" doesn't seem to throw up
> the one you meant either.

Try again now. As mentioned "I am about to write ..." ;-)

Thanks,
Andre.

>>> So, is having a more generic solution really needed?
>>
>> Not necessarily needed, but useful, I think. As described above I don't
>> see any technical obstacles of doing it in a more generic way, so we
>> could as well go ahead with this. On x86 from time to time the need for
>> additional binaries pops up (early microcode loading, for instance), so
>> why not be be prepared.
>
> I agree. There have also been occasions where people doing
> disaggregation have wanted to start multiple initial domains, requiring
> additional modules at load time. I don't think being generic and
> extensible is costing too much here.
>
> Ian.
>

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-04  9:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-03 15:53 [PROPOSAL] ARM/FDT: passing multiple binaries to a kernel Andre Przywara
2013-09-03 22:00 ` Rob Herring
2013-09-04  8:43   ` Andre Przywara
2013-09-04  8:55     ` Ian Campbell
2013-09-04  9:14       ` Andre Przywara [this message]
2013-09-05 13:23     ` Rob Herring
2013-09-06 13:30       ` Andre Przywara
2013-09-04  8:44   ` Ian Campbell
2013-09-04 16:41     ` Rob Herring
2013-09-13 10:13       ` Grant Likely
2013-09-13 11:22         ` Ian Campbell
2013-09-15 12:17           ` Grant Likely
2013-09-14  1:40         ` Rob Herring
2013-09-15 12:23           ` Grant Likely
2013-09-14  4:06       ` Dennis Gilmore
2013-09-15 12:37 ` Grant Likely
2013-09-16 17:01   ` Andre Przywara

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