Re: APEX, NSLU2, skip stuff

[Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:23:21PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> [2006-08-13 17:10]:
> > I, too, would prefer that.  In fact, if we were to do that, we could
> > should the kernel partition to skip the initial sercomm header as well
> > as the one in the middle (which we are already skipping).  This would
> > then present the same view of the kernel we do for the initrd.
> 
> Uhm, can one partition contain multiple skip headers in its padding
> area?

As many as you like.  Really, APEX only honors 4 at the moment, but we
could have as many as we like.  It doesn't care where they appear or
in what order.  Each one must be a complete fis_skip_descriptor
structure including the 'skip' magic.


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> Martin Michlmayr
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