Re: boothowto

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

> Does anyone know why ancient hp300 [*] saved the `howto' argument to boot()
> as `boothowto' global?  Was it passed to the bootloader after reboot
> somehow?

It was, and still it is:
http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src-csrg/sys/hp300/hp300/locore.s#2626
http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src-csrg/sys/hp300/stand/srt0.c#137
http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/arch/hp300/hp300/locore.s?r=1.166#1423
http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/arch/hp300/stand/common/srt0.S?r=1.17#259
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Izumi Tsutsui