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Subject: Re: Help regarding the second stage loader
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Hi Vinay,

> Can someone please let me know the place of the second
> stage bootloader for FreeBSD PPC kernel under the
> source trunk?
  ...
> I browsed thru' the FreeBSD boot directories
> (sys/boot/powerpc/loader directory), but couldn't find
> any second stage loader code. 

  You're in the right place :) The Makefile in that directory shows what 
code is included - the OpenFirmware library, the FICL forth interpreter, 
the sys/boot/common MI source etc.

later,

Peter.