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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 1997 14:34:27 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, bde@zeta.org.au, dgy@rtd.com, hackers@freebsd.org, helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De
Subject:   Re: wd driver questions
Message-ID:  <199703170404.OAA06742@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199703170311.NAA06131@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Mar 17, 97 01:41:10 pm"

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Michael Smith stands accused of saying:
> 
> > Tony Overfield (an engineer from Dell) has gone over this all before,
> > but since he wants a three stage boot, a lot of his good comments
> > were thrown out with the bathwater of a three stage boot after no
> > one came forward to "bell the cat" (write the three stage boot code).
> 
> Several of us are playing with three-stage bootcode.  If you would be so

I should perhaps have added that I haven't seen Tony's code, so I
can't comment on what he has done.  So far I have Bill's hack to the
current bootstrap, GRUB and my tinkering with the NetBSD libsa.  If
anyone else is seriously working on a 3-stage bootstrap, I'd be happy
to hear about it.

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