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Date:      Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:05:44 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        Jos Backus <Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: testmain -> ficl ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901081404120.21487-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <3695BE8B.C4EDB7B4@newsguy.com>

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On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> Jos Backus wrote:
> > 
> > Since we have it in the tree anyway, would it make sense to always
> > build/install testmain and install it as, say, /usr/bin/ficl? Perhaps that
> > would encourage some people to start fiddling with it, e.g. to enhance the
> > /boot stuff?
> 
> I'd have prefered a userland loader... :-)

What do you mean? The only thing that comes to my mind is an emulator of
the real bootloader, so that you could test things. Well, userland
bootloader -> KLD is kind of one.

Andrzej Bialecki

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