Subject: Re: TODO list
To: Dave Daniels <dave_daniels@argonet.co.uk>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm32
Date: 07/26/2000 11:58:27
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Dave Daniels wrote:
> As the one who has been working on the RISC OS NetBSD bootloader
> of late, my approach would be to see what has to be done to
> integrate NetBSD/arm26 into the existing code. I should think it
> would be a lot less work than doing it the other way around. To be
> honest I cannot see anything wrong with the application !BtRiscBSD
> or with the bootloader itself, btriscbsd, given that the program
> has to run under RISC OS. If you do not like !BtRiscBSD you can
> run btriscbsd by hand from the command line if you wish.
>
> RISC OS does not use a disk-based bootloader so I do not think
> that you will find a cleaner way to boot NetBSD on a RISC OS
Swithing to a more standard bootloader not only gives something
that can be more easily built and debugged from within NetBSD,
but also gives the option to boot from other filesystems and
network devices.
David/absolute
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