Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:31:48 +0530 From: "Aditya Godbole" <aag.lists@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ramdisk support Message-ID: <2f3a439f0611200201h4a96d43ave4e62ff2da8bdcb2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200611161805.kAGI5w9b013112@peedub.jennejohn.org> References: <2f3a439f0611160836r3c88c3f4ja9cc5a5f4b78a244@mail.gmail.com> <200611161805.kAGI5w9b013112@peedub.jennejohn.org>
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On 11/16/06, Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> wrote: > Unfortunately, u-boot makes heavy use of Linux' support for rootdev, etc., > which AFAIK is missing in FreeBSD. It heavily depends on passing lots of > necessary information in the Linux command line to influence the boot > process. > > BTW do you have any patches which you could contribute, or have you already > done that? > Right now, I'm taking the kernel command line from u-boot and performing appropriate actions in my bootstrap code. On the freebsd-ppc list we are talking about possible ways to remove dependencies on a particular bootloader. Cheers. -- aditya
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