On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Ian Fry wrote:

> 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)?

Eventually, yes.  RISC OS makes doing this kind of thing unnecessarily
painful, but it can (and will) be done.

> 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 ;-)

That's a nice idea.  Probably the easiest way to do this would be to wrap
it up in a module that stuck it in ResourceFS, along with a suitable
!Boot, and then set RISC OS up to boot from ResourceFS (like NCs do).

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