On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de wrote:

> 
> I didn't speak against 2-stage booting - what I wanted to say
> is that squeezing filesystem reading code into the first ~8k will
> cause endless trouble. So a blocklist is the way to go. Whether
> for the "final" boot stage or an intermediate stage, is another question.
> 
> 

Except in FCode.  It's easy to write a UFS reader in less than 8K in
FCode.  You can even throw in an ELF loader.  I suppose MIPS machines
don't have firmware that groks FCode.

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