From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755884AbZAVAZI (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:25:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754741AbZAVAY4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:24:56 -0500 Received: from solo.fdn.fr ([80.67.169.19]:33293 "EHLO solo.fdn.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754732AbZAVAYz (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:24:55 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:24:47 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: kmh@nerdshack.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de, lermen@fgan.de, davej@redhat.com, cebbert@redhat.com Subject: Re: PROBLEM: loadlin incompatible with 2.6.23 kernels Message-ID: <20090122002447.GJ5237@const.famille.thibault.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Samuel Thibault , "H. Peter Anvin" , kmh@nerdshack.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de, lermen@fgan.de, davej@redhat.com, cebbert@redhat.com References: <200712022336.SAA12095@granite.sover.net> <4977AB27.8080608@zytor.com> <20090121234347.GI5237@const.famille.thibault.fr> <4977BAC2.3060009@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4977BAC2.3060009@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org H. Peter Anvin, le Wed 21 Jan 2009 16:16:02 -0800, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> > >>Unfortunately LOADLIN hasn't been updated for a very long time, and > >>there doesn't seem to be much interest in maintaining it. > > > >I've fixed loadlin in debian and actually plan to maintain it upstream. > >I had to patch it quite a bit to make it compilable by yasm, but it can > >now boot recent big kernels & initrds. > > > > Excellent news! Is there a new upstream location (or do you need one)? Not yet, there will be when I take some time to settle one on thefreecat.org. In the meanwhile you can just get it from debian. Samuel