From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 13 15:33:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03607 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:33:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03021; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:30:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA03352; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:23:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd003346; Fri Feb 13 15:23:00 1998 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:19:12 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Mike Smith cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , Paul Traina , core@FreeBSD.ORG, junichi@jp.freebsd.org, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wfd block major number reassignment from 24 to 1 In-Reply-To: <199802132317.PAA05066@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk you make some good points.. I reverse my position.. but think that the 3rd stage loader needs to be really designed ths time :) On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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