Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:00:23 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: erich@uruk.org (Erich Boleyn) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, dg@Root.COM, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory probe(s) in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199611182100.OAA07618@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <E0vPGZx-0006py-00@uruk.org> from "Erich Boleyn" at Nov 17, 96 03:24:45 pm
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> Some really big advantages of > the Multiboot stuff include of course the extra memory information, but > also a real text command-line (i.e. no patches to the bootloader for > every new kernel option supported) and multiple modules passed at boot-time > to the kernel would then be supported. What do you mean, "multiple modules passed at boot-time to the kernel"? In the future, I think the boot loader should be inherited by the kernel... Specifically, I'd like to see the boot loader code load immediate any ELF sections tagged as "load immediate" from the kernel file, jump to the entry point, and let the kernel call back to the loader to load drivers, etc. from its own image and from other images that it knows how to find. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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