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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 11:47:27 -0800
From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS
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On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 02:02:29PM +0100, warp@xs4all.nl wrote:
> 1) Is anybody planning to make MILO work with NetBSD*;

>From what I could tell from browsing the OpenBSD source, the only
thing standing in the way of the BSDs booting off MILO is their
reliance on SRM callbacks for printing to the console during the
early boot process.  And some bits that read the SRM environment
variables to snag the kernel command line and such.

It shouldn't be terribly hard to either implement the SRM callbacks
in MILO or (conditionally) avoid them in the BSD kernel.  The former
would of course be more helpful.


r~

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