2006/525: New Boot Sparc

Bill Sommerfeld sommerfeld at Sun.COM
Wed Aug 8 10:21:31 PDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 09:49 -0700, Scott Rotondo wrote:
> My point was simply to express the concern that implementing the 
> partial, sparc-only solution might reduce the incentive to pursue a 
> better solution in the near future. 

I disagree.  By clearly establishing precedent that it's okay to boot
from something other than a monolithic archive when you're booting from
your own root file system, this encourages experimentation about the
right way to do this on x86.

					- Bill






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