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Re: boot issue on NetBSD/vax 8.x and 9.x



abs@ wrote:

> (I wonder how hard it would be to make the bootloader load at a low
> memory address and then probe memory & relocate itself up high out of
> the kernel space, though that would probably only be useful for 4M or
> 6M machines, which is now very much an extreme target for recent
> NetBSD...)

Maybe keeping it simple is better for maintainability.

For 4MB or 6MB VAXen, maybe using NetBSD 7.2 boot is enough.

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Izumi Tsutsui


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