Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

[Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>]

Hello,

2009/6/2 Stefano Canepa <sc@linux.it>:
[...]
> Looks without ext4 support
>
>    * aboot: alpha
>    * yaboot: powerpc
>    * arcboot: mips
>    * silo: sparc
>    * delo: mipsel
>    * sibyl: mips, mipsel
>    * prep: powerpc
>    * palo: hppa

What people think we ought to do in this case?

I think that if user selected ext4 for the partition that will have
/boot we ought to show a error message so user can react to it. I'm
unsure if it has been dealed by current patches commited by Colin but
I think it is not.

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