Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 01:33:11 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: sos@FreeBSD.dk, dg@root.com, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG, regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? Message-ID: <28890.881314391@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Dec 1997 18:46:25 %2B1100." <199712050746.SAA23963@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> (the magic number at this address is of course 0xNNNNNNed to jump over > the header). Perhaps the boot loader should initialize paging so that > the startup code doesn't need to be written in assembler (to relocate > from low physical memory to high virtual memory). I think we were wondering more about the size constraints on getting a single-stage bootblock to recognize both ELF and a.out images. :-) I know you're a fan of our current boot blocks, but this sounds like more intelligence than can be fit into our existing boot block code. Is there a secret GRUB project going or something that I don't know about? How were the ELFsters planning on booting either type of kernel during the transition period? :) Jordan
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