Subject: Re: New bootloader
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Ian Fry <Ian.Fry@sophos.com>
List: port-arm26
Date: 08/01/2001 11:34:17
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:06:37PM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> As people may have noticed, I've recently committed a new bootloader for
> NetBSD/arm26.  This one is written in C, compiles under NetBSD, and shares
> a lot of code with all NetBSD's other bootloaders.  At the moment, the
> only user-visible improvement over BBBB is the ability to load gzipped
> kernels.

Presumably, the new bootloader will be able to load kernels from a NetBSD
partition (eventually)?

Would it be possible to produce a module version, so that it could be put
into ROM (e.g. on some SCSI cards), and then you wouldn't need a RISC OS
partition at all ;-)

Ian.