Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 16:16:46 +0100 From: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981103161646.0097a780@mail.scancall.no> In-Reply-To: <199811022258.OAA02025@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Tue, 03 Nov 1998 09:35:43 %2B1100." <98Nov3.093515est.40322@border.alcanet.com.au>
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>It will never fit in the "bootblocks". It's all we can do to locate a >file in the filesystem and read it in. Before being too dim about >this, bear in mind that no other operating system bootstrap manages to >achieve this much with so little. Quite true. Actually being able to locate a file in the file system is pretty hard, especially with complex filesystems, as I suppose FFS most likely is. >There would be little trouble including the FICL Forth engine in the >kernel; I had actually considered the not insubstantial advantages to >doing this (most importantly the ability to attach Forth to modules to >do specialised load/unload operations), but I suspect that this will be >viewed too much like heresy by many people. Anything that helps increase flexibility is good, if it doesn't bring excessive bloat with it. From what I've heard so far, this would be a good idea. Alternately, might it not be possible to add an option for it? --- Marius Bendiksen, IT-Trainee, ScanCall AS <marius@scancall.no> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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