Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:23:48 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@telehouse.ch> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> Cc: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot1 changes and etherboot support Message-ID: <3A905984.8CE67B77@telehouse.ch> References: <200102181758.f1IHwmB27757@iguana.aciri.org>
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Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > + put some conditional-compilation code in boot1.s > > > + have a separate file, say bootrom.s, maybe in the same directory > > > as the existing boot1 > > > + pass the modified code to the etherboot people so they can include > > > in their source tree. > > > > > > in all sincerity i'd love to have this code in the FreeBSD source tree > > > rather than have to resort to some external repository. > > > > My preference would be for a separate file in a separate directory, > > more or less similar to cdldr and pxeldr; I'd be least keen on handling > > this with conditional-compilation. > > ok.. do you mind then if i follow your advice and create /sys/i386/romldr/ Yuck, why don't just call it '/sys/i386/romloader/'? I thought the cryptic 8 char name times are over by some years. With "ldr" you save exactly 3 characters but having the full name spelled out makes it far easier on the first glance to see what this is about. > and put there the modified boot1, makefile etc ? > There has been no other feedback so i think most other people is neutral. > > On a separate issue, and for picobsd purposes, it would be very > convenient to have yet another boot sector type that would just > take an ELF kernel appended to it, load into memory and start it. > I suppose this would be a variant of boot2, but do you have any > idea on how complex would it be to write such a beast ? > > If we had it, we could just 'dd' the boot code and the kernel onto > a compactflash and boot from it without having to worry about > creating a filesystem. That would be really cool! -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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