Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 17:30:31 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Jonathan Mini <mini@freebsd.org>, Michael Smith <msmith@mass.dis.org>, Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, hackers@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: nextboot loader diff Message-ID: <XFMail.20020510173031.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3CDC30BF.EC1BC7BD@mindspring.com>
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On 10-May-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> On 10-May-2002 Julian Elischer wrote: >> > You also had to have: > > [ ... ] > >> > 4/ The ability to specify a filesystem on another planet^H^H^H^H^H^Hdisk. >> >> Something you've missed in this version of nextboot is: >> >> 5/ work on more than just i386 > > [ ... ] > >> This only works on i386. > > Now is when I point out that the original nextboot predates the ELF > format conversion, as well as the new FORTH based loader code... > which predates running on anything other than i386 anyway (unless > you count my Motorolla Powerstack port, or Vogel's SPARC port, > back before the 4.4-Lite integration). Right, and we aren't writing a direct replacement of that nextboot. We are writing a utility for FreeBSD 5.0 (and possibly 4.x.) in the year 2002 AD. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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