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Date:      Tue, 20 Jun 2000 07:23:51 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>
Cc:        Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freebsd bios.
Message-ID:  <394E9D77.7E8D3060@newsguy.com>
References:  <66205.961453079@pinhead.parag.codegen.com>

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Parag Patel wrote:
> 
> Well, it's more of a matter of putting the kernel itself into the boot
> ROM with some small assembly/C code to turn on DRAM and an ungzipper to
> load and run it.  It's fairly simple, other than dealing with the
> various motherboard/chipset vagaries.

Ah, yes, I forgot about that part. Still evil, but better. :-)

> Personally, I'd set it up to hold two kernel images - one for testing
> and one for emergency recovery.  If a bad kernel gets into the flash,
> recovering will be ...  painful.  But there may not be enough room.

Heh. :-) Yeah, that would be... desirable... :-)

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