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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
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Subject: Re: ELF kernels: When?
In-Reply-To: <199804222032.NAA00578@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at "Apr 22, 98 01:32:09 pm"
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Mike Smith once stated:

=> So, does anyone know enough about bootblocks to look at integrating
=> NetBSD's?
[...]
=> They have done a significant amount of work in this area it seems,
=> and they already have a two-stage design. Trying to squeeze every
=> last bit out of the current blocks seems futile..

=The only thing "wrong" with their code is that their second stage 
=bootblock has a blocklist for the third stage.  That's Ugly.

Yet its there. Please, excuse me wondering into an area I have very
limited understanding of, but why can not FreeBSD be booted by NetBSD
bootblocks? Would not this be a sensible step to take?

	-mi

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