From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 23:18:31 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E5C3106564A; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 23:18:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C8148FC14; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 23:18:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxi39 with SMTP id 39so1190128vxi.13 for ; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:18:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=wemm.org; s=google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=cOhUiQ1BAxZW7puz/Zf4hMeUm4VfCNH0JWvGJltzhtY=; b=33dii+pMDGyyETakLJH6/X9MHsRkScAOJfgil8QpHtaFFl2ipX0nAPO2u6fe8r7qZp TL5tdht273vrvlBmuvfFqX9WpWWCqTRj3cLH8mv/C+7rcE5EOZ3iyGz1WUTKjvRuZCFN LRI8gP0naeotzHKW16uAd85TXq22XUo2xubSM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.92.233 with SMTP id cp9mr400569vdb.513.1315522099155; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:48:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.185.13 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:48:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E6940D3.4070801@freebsd.org> References: <4E6940D3.4070801@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:48:19 -0700 Message-ID: From: Peter Wemm To: Peter Grehan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" , Andrew Duane , "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Soliciting opinions on an extension of the bootinfo structure X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:18:31 -0000 On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Peter Grehan wrote: >> I'm proposing an extension framework for the bootinfo structure used >> to pass information from the bootstrap/loader to the kernel. Although >> I'm only proposing this for the MIPS bootinfo, it's completely >> applicable to any of them. >> >> What I propose is adding an optional platform extension structure: >> bootinfo_pext, surrounded by #ifdef BOOTINFO_PEXT > > =A0Any reason not to put the vendor bits into another piece of loader met= adata > ? That seems the extensible way to add additional info from the loader, > rather than extending bootinfo (as was the case pre-loader days). > > later, It sounds like they're not using loader, which is probably a reasonable thing for their environment. --=20 Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell