On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:

> I've been working on a modified version of `BBBB' to boot NetBSD/arm32
> from...

*shudder*  BBBB was meant to be a stop-gap until someone could write a
proper bootloader.  Oh well, I suppose this is always the way with
stop-gaps.

Incidentally, I've just written a useful little tool to convert text files
into tokenized BBC BASIC, and hidden it at
<URL:ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/quick-hacks/bastok/>.  This
makes it possible to generate a usable form of BBBB without needing to
copy it to and from a RISC OS machine.  I'll put it into the main NetBSD
source tree once I've worked out where it should go.

> Its allmost ready to really relocate stuff and i hope to have it
> start NetBSD/arm32 tonight or tomorrow... i doubt it will run though for
> i'll have to munge start() and the init_arm() in rpc_machdep.c to account
> for the new situation. I've tried to keep as much as BBBB the same so to
> ease merging into one bootloader allthough i've only changed the a.out
> loader so it wont hurt NetBSD/arm26 loading :)

Yes, the a.out stuff is pretty much dead as far as I'm concerned, so you
can safely break it some more.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>