Subject: Re: patches to pc532/stand
To: None <leo@marco.de, port-pc532@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: Phil Budne <budd@cs.bu.edu>
List: port-pc532
Date: 08/22/1994 21:11:17
* You can now boot from sdX:/netbsd (where X is > 1)
cool!
* You can now boot a kernel with a zero size symbol table.
(this is usefull for boot floppies. You can get a working system
including the kernel on a 1.44 mb disk)
neat! Actually, I don't think anything picks up the symbols (yet)!
* Most important: We finally got a running wheel like the sun :-)
Actually my first "boot" (a port of the 386 boot program which uses
the BIOS) had this. It went away when I did the second version which
uses the standalone I/O library.
* I think scsi_low.c should not reset the scsi bus (one of my disks
gives me problems if scsi_low resets the bus).
I recall suns are pretty fond of bus resets (I remember from hearing
frequent GRONK noices from QIC24 tape drives), but whatever works best
for everyone... I think scsi_low.c is a bit heavyweight, but I didn't
have the urge to rip apart code that seemed to work well!
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