From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 17:14:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E3D1065676 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:14:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luigi@onelab2.iet.unipi.it) Received: from onelab2.iet.unipi.it (onelab2.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1E98FC08 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:14:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luigi@onelab2.iet.unipi.it) Received: by onelab2.iet.unipi.it (Postfix, from userid 275) id C53FD73098; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:19:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:19:01 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-ID: <20081201171901.GA13277@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20081201152410.GA8048@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <12387.1228149386@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <12387.1228149386@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upcoming change to boot0.S (mostly documentation) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:14:14 -0000 On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:36:26PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20081201152410.GA8048@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo writes: > > > >in the past few days I have been looking at the boot0.S code (the > >512 byte version, i386) [...] > > Ahh too bad, it would have been much more productive to work on the > 1024 byte version instead... there's indeed a lot in common among the two (as a matter of fact, now i notice that some the 1024 byte version has some more comments in it that also explain what goes on in the 512 byte version...)