Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 20:29:23 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: New bootstrap now available for general testing. Message-ID: <199808202029.UAA03923@dingo.cdrom.com>
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I'm pleased to announce that the new (three-stage) bootstrap code is
now available for general testing. Please note the caveats in the
commit message below.
Major changes are slated for the i386 code, including:
- net device additions
- PnP/PCI BIOS probes
- a new crt0 module borrowing from "DOS extender" technology
General major changes planned:
- full merge of disk- and net- bootstraps
- move of the image activators from MD to MI code
- PnP-based peripheral detection
- module dependancy determination and autoloading
Contributions, fixes, criticisms are all warmly solicited.
A couple of notes specifically for the NetBSD folks:
- Thanks for making your work on the i386 standalone bootstrap
available. Having such a working example has made germination
much more rapid.
- In both this and the libstand code recently incorporated, we have
done our best to respect copyright claims on existing code, and
attempted to give appropriate credit where due. If you find any
cases where we might have been lax in this matter, please let me
know privately, so that these omissions can be corrected promptly.
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From: Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 20:17:42 -0700 (PDT)
To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject: cvs commit: src/sys/boot - Imported sources
msmith 1998/08/20 20:17:42 PDT
src/sys/boot - Imported sources
Update of /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot
In directory freefall.freebsd.org:/d/users/msmith/boot
Log Message:
This is the new unified bootstrap, sometimes known previously as the
'three-stage' bootstrap.
There are a number of caveats with the code in its current state:
- The i386 bootstrap only supports booting from a floppy.
- The kernel and kld do not yet know how to deal with the extended
information and module summary passed in.
- PnP-based autodetection and demand loading of modules is not implemented.
- i386 ELF kernel loading is not ready yet.
- The i386 bootstrap is loaded via an ugly blockmap.
On the alpha, both net- and disk-booting (SRM console machines only) is
supported. No blockmaps are used by this code.
Obtained from: Parts from the NetBSD/i386 standalone bootstrap.
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