From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 10 14:30:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail16.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD6237B404 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 14:30:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 31877 invoked from network); 10 May 2002 21:30:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail16.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 10 May 2002 21:30:41 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4ALUdF44185; Fri, 10 May 2002 17:30:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3CDC30BF.EC1BC7BD@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 17:30:31 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: nextboot loader diff Cc: Jonathan Mini , Michael Smith , Gordon Tetlow , hackers@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 <>< 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