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KS2008: Bootstrap code

Posted Sep 18, 2008 16:33 UTC (Thu) by vmole (guest, #111)
In reply to: KS2008: Bootstrap code by rahulsundaram
Parent article: KS2008: Bootstrap code

That's what Dave Jones is doing. If you read the rest of the article, you see there are some other approaches being considered :-).

I think the whole thing is going to be a tough sell. The first time a customer's system won't boot because of the new init code, there will be strong temptation to revert.


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KS2008: Bootstrap code

Posted Sep 19, 2008 2:39 UTC (Fri) by opalmirror (subscriber, #23465) [Link]

I think the whole thing is going to be a tough sell. The first time a customer's system won't boot because of the new init code, there will be strong temptation to revert.

Like the PATA hard disk support for SCSI? Initial pain, long-term gain.

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