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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:08:14 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 bioscall.s locore.s
Message-ID:  <20010225140814.A30554@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <200102250744.f1P7ieV91620@freefall.freebsd.org>; from peter@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 11:44:40PM -0800
References:  <200102250744.f1P7ieV91620@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 11:44:40PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:

>   This is little more than an academic curiosity anyway since all it is
>   good for is situations where the boot code is hard wired, eg: rom
>   bootstraps (such as the gnat box).

An alternative option is to compile an elf kernel and then use
"kzip -f aout" to produce an aout gzipped image of an elf kernel.
The aout loader should be able to use that.

This is what we're using for our 40 odd xterminals that we don't
really want to have to reburn eproms for.

	David.

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