From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 10 15: 5:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B08437B409; Fri, 10 May 2002 15:05:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0471.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.216] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 176IW1-0003bj-00; Fri, 10 May 2002 15:05:29 -0700 Message-ID: <3CDC4408.A288FAE3@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:04:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: Jonathan Mini , Michael Smith , Gordon Tetlow , hackers@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer Subject: Re: nextboot loader diff References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 John Baldwin wrote: > > 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. I thought we were trying to retrieve the nextboot functionality lost in the ELF upgrade. My point in my last response was that criticising portability of Julian's description of what the old code was supposed to do is really silly, since FreeBSD wasn't even using ELF at the time, let alone had any other platforms integrated into the source tree. My original point was that it's a deeper utility than it seems at first glance. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message