From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 5 01:40:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA07291 for current-outgoing; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 01:40:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA07285 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 01:40:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA07910; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:40:06 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199712050940.KAA07910@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? In-Reply-To: <28890.881314391@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 5, 97 01:33:11 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:40:06 +0100 (MET) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, sos@FreeBSD.dk, dg@root.com, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG, regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who wrote: > > (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? :) Hmm, I think we have done it differently... I have bootblocks that reads both formats, but has no bad144 support ... I hope to have more time after Xmas/Newyear, currently I'm having 20+ hour days (we have a release to build at work, due monday), and a week of vacation on the Canaries after that, then it should slowly settle back to normal... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..