In article <1451C07C-3807-450B-A7FE-64D62BBCA7DD@shagadelic.org> you write:
>On Jan 9, 2007, at 12:27 PM, M J Fleming wrote:
>> Should proplib be able to work this early in the boot process?
>
>It was intended to work in standalone environments, yes.  Perhaps it  
>is exercising the standalone memory allocator too hard.  (Note, I  
>never actually tested it in standalone -- there could be bugs in some  
>of the hacks I had to use to get it to build in that environment...)

FWIW, I experimentally added proplib to the acorn26 bootloader to see if 
it would be useful for passing boot parameters to the kernel.  I thus 
didn't test proplib_*_internalize(), but creating and externalizing 
objects seemed to work correctly.  The only reason boot26 doesn't use 
proplib now is that I didn't get around to implementing the additional 
boot parameters.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@NetBSD.org>
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