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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