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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.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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