From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 13 15:20:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00572 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:20:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29950; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:19:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA05066; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:17:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802132317.PAA05066@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Julian Elischer cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , Paul Traina , Mike Smith , core@FreeBSD.ORG, junichi@jp.freebsd.org, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wfd block major number reassignment from 24 to 1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:45:19 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:17:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Actually a 3 stage bootloader is something I'd dearly like to avoid. > (invitation to bloat) It is the necessity to deal with the bloat-related issues without actually creating any more bloat that the third bootstrap stage addresses. We need to be able to load a.out and ELF kernels. We need to be able to link parts of the kernel at load time We need to support up-front user configuration. We need to load support information for the kernel (eg. PnP tables, etc.) up front. We need to interact with the BIOS to recover ESCD, PnP, APM, etc. information before starting the kernel. We do *not* want this code bloating the kernel. Despite our best efforts, we can't put it in the bootblocks. There is nowhere else for it to go. We are hurting severely for not having support for the above already. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message