From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 8 05:00:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA19932 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 05:00:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA19924 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 05:00:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA21614; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:05:45 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:05:44 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: "Daniel C. Sobral" cc: Jos Backus , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: testmain -> ficl ? In-Reply-To: <3695BE8B.C4EDB7B4@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message