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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: New bootstrap now available for general testing.
In-Reply-To: <199808202029.UAA03923@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Aug 20, 98 08:29:23 pm"
To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:38:46 -0700 (PDT)
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Mike Smith writes:
> I'm pleased to announce that the new (three-stage) bootstrap code is 
> now available for general testing.  Please note the caveats in the 
> commit message below.
> 
> Major changes are slated for the i386 code, including:
> 
>  - net device additions
>  - PnP/PCI BIOS probes
>  - a new crt0 module borrowing from "DOS extender" technology
> 
> General major changes planned:
> 
>  - full merge of disk- and net- bootstraps
>  - move of the image activators from MD to MI code
>  - PnP-based peripheral detection
>  - module dependancy determination and autoloading
> 
> Contributions, fixes, criticisms are all warmly solicited.

How about congratulations! :-) This stuff has been wanting
for a long time...

-Archie

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