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Date:      Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:23:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btxldr btxldr.s
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021007152306.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200210071912.g97JCaH2018692@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On 07-Oct-2002 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> phk         2002/10/07 12:12:36 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/boot/i386/btx/btxldr btxldr.s 
>   Log:
>   Correctly adjust for moved start address.
>   
>   It seems that the existence of a "depend" target in src/sys/boot is not
>   to be taken as an indication that it actually does what one would expect,
>   at least it clearly threw my testing off.

Well, the problem is that the boot code has a lot of indirect magic numbers
in it and there aren't any real headers that are shared for these various
things to depend on.  This stuff is kind of gross. :)

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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