Subject: Re: Prep bootloader
To: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
From: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
List: port-prep
Date: 03/11/2006 08:28:49
On 11-Mar-2006 David Brownlee wrote:
> Another option would be to support something like kloader(4), then
> your 'bootloader' becomes a kernel. Its unlinkely the benefits
> of that outweigh the effort though...
Hrmm.. I wasn't aware of that feature.. but it had crossed my mind. (mostly in
the context that any bootloader would be like writing half the kernel again,
it's too bad I couldn't double-jump the kernel)
I might look into that.. Probably as an optional feature.. because it seems
like you would have to upgrade it occasionally as well. But maybe a user could
let his kloader kernel bitrot longer.
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Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
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