Re: CVS commit: src

[Jared McNeill <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

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It doesn't have to be ELF, I do it now on x86 for splash images. From 
/boot I load a .png, .jpg, or .bmp and add it to the module list but mark 
it as BI_MODULE_IMAGE (instead of BI_MODULE_ELF). I can then grab the blob 
from the kernel -- see arch/x86/x86/x86_machdep.c:module_init_md()

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> Can't make one of those without an ELF toolchain, right?  The basic
> idea's about right, but I actually need something less sophisticated in its
> packaging -- a way to just give the kernel the address of blob-of-stuff
> the bootloader's dropped into place for it, so the entropy pool code
> can just take it and prime itself.
>
> Thor
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