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Date:      Mon, 3 Aug 2015 12:01:48 +0200
From:      Edward Tomasz =?utf-8?Q?Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>, Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pivot_root() and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20150803100148.GA6807@brick.home>
In-Reply-To: <55BF3822.7030405@freebsd.org>
References:  <654E1C53-8536-406D-B218-EA6F20848821@webweaving.org> <55BEE4A5.40107@freebsd.org> <20150803071150.GA6116@brick.home> <CAJ-Vmo=g91Ub=-hnfodZGbLsAoLLxsbRfY-QzE7GRz3_JP3VGA@mail.gmail.com> <55BF3822.7030405@freebsd.org>

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On 0803T1745, Julian Elischer wrote:
> On 8/3/15 3:13 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > .. and it won't work for upgrading routers, as the MIPS things don't use loader.
> 
> it can also be compiled into the kernel...
> I've done that... a picobsd filesystem linked into the kernel

Would be better to just make it work for MIPS :-)

How do MIPS machines boot?  Are they able to load the kernel and modules?
If so, making it load md image shouldn't be that hard - it's just like
loading modules, just marking them as non-kld type.




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