[Solved]The linux kernel with build in bootloader?

First of let me apologize if I'm making no sense at all. This isn't really my area of expertise.
I just recently stumbled upon some rather interesting "news" about the linux kernel developers working to implement a an EFI/GTP (I think) bootloader in the kernel it self. I would very much like to know if this is actually true, I'd like to learn more and follow the development, but I haven't been able to find any relevant information, appart from the incomplete mailing list I stumbled upon.
I suspect that I'm simply using the wrong search parameters. Again, it's not like I know too much about what I'm doing.
In any case, if you have even the slightest idea what I'm talking about, please do guide me in the right direction.
Best regards.
Last edited by zacariaz (2012-03-01 20:02:04)

Gusar wrote:
litemotiv wrote:I was mainly thinking about a way to boot straight into Arch from rEFIt without chainloading grub/syslinux first.
Thanks to the info and links the.ridikulus.rat provided, I've now learned a bit more about this stuff (I'm probably still missing a lot ). Basically, rEFIt is a manager that launches bootloaders. With EFI_STUB, the kernel is it's own bootloader, so what you say is indeed possible - start linux from rEFIt without going through grub/syslinux. Well, it would be possible if there wasn't for one huge problem - rEFIt doesn't allow passing options, which is needed in this case. But that's where rEFIt's fork (rEFInd) comes into play.
Further, there are patches on the kernel mailing list that will make it possible for an EFI_STUB kernel to read options from a file. Then not even rEFInd will be needed. Strictly speaking it isn't needed even now, but you need to type the options manually on the efi shell, which isn't very convenient. Fun stuff all this, innit? . It's a whole new crazy world.
Cool, thanks for the pro-active research!

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