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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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