From: yoann padioleau <aryx.padator@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Porting plan9
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 16:20:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38B4730F-0F3D-4BF8-AF67-05ED8FFBCA48@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <547E3CF1.1090706@gr13.net>
I think one of the reason 9load is quite complicated is because
they wanted to boot a kernel from the network, so you need a network stack and the drivers for the ethernet card, so you really need lots of OS code in the end.
On Dec 2, 2014, at 2:28 PM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <enrico.weigelt@gr13.net> wrote:
> On 02.12.2014 23:02, Iruatã Souza wrote:
>
>>> apropos kernel/bootloader: I just recently had a look at the code
>>> and somewhat got the impression that 9load seems to be a specially
>>> tailored plan9 kernel, which then loads the real kernel.
>>>
>>> is that correct or am I mistaken here ?
>>
>> Correct.
>
> hmm, interesting.
>
> What's the exact reason behind that ?
>
> I'm really not an expert for bootloaders, but I always got the
> impression, that bootloaders need to be extremly minimal (eg. on
> PC you'll have only about 0.5k for the first stage) and serve an
> entirely different purpose than an OS kernel.
>
> OTOH, having a complete OS/Kernel as preboot environment of course
> also has it's charm - allows easily adding lots of setup things,
> even rescue stuff, etc.
>
> Can 9front also boot other operating systems, eg. Linux ?
> Could it become a replacement for other bootloaders like grub ?
>
>
> cu
> --
> Enrico Weigelt,
> metux IT consulting
> +49-151-27565287
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-03 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-01 5:14 Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-01 5:44 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-01 8:43 ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-01 14:13 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-01 21:54 ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02 0:30 ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-02 0:56 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02 2:16 ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02 2:23 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-12-02 4:03 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02 4:05 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02 4:19 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02 4:23 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02 2:42 ` Bakul Shah
2014-12-02 3:31 ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02 2:43 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02 9:32 ` Richard Miller
2014-12-02 10:12 ` Jens Staal
2014-12-02 10:48 ` mischief
2014-12-02 10:54 ` mischief
2014-12-02 14:10 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02 15:21 ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02 21:57 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02 22:02 ` Iruatã Souza
2014-12-02 22:28 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02 22:55 ` Iruatã Souza
2014-12-03 0:20 ` yoann padioleau [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-24 1:17 [9fans] porting plan9 forsyth
2002-01-24 19:13 ` Michael Grunditz
2002-01-24 0:45 jmk
2002-01-23 23:58 Michael Grunditz
2002-01-23 23:06 anothy
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