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Date:      Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:02:02 +0100
From:      Rink Springer <rink@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, Rink Springer <rink@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c
Message-ID:  <20080313210202.GL77132@rink.nu>
In-Reply-To: <200803131556.24388.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <200803131856.m2DIurjS096021@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080313195116.GJ77132@rink.nu> <200803131556.24388.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:56:24PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> I think people still want to be able to boot kernels from boot2/gptboot rather 
> than loader in which case we'd always have to have the vm86 calls that are 
> there now.

My suggestion is to always use SMAP / bootinfo if it's there; if it's
not there, use the old-fashioned way. Otherwise, things like GRUB will
die too ...

-- 
Rink P.W. Springer                                - http://rink.nu
"Anyway boys, this is America. Just because you get more votes doesn't
 mean you win." - Fox Mulder



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