Subject: Re: New bootloader
To: Ian Fry <Ian.Fry@sophos.com>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm26
Date: 08/03/2001 00:58:30
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Ian Fry wrote:

> > > 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).
>
> I hadn't thouyht of doing it that way - I was thinking about letting the
> module be RMEnter'd, so that you could *Configure Language Boot26, reboot,
> and off you go...

OK.  Some of that's done now.  In theory, you can burn the current boot26
into a podule ROM and make it the current language, and it'll work.  On
the other hand, it can still only load from a RISC OS filing system, and
there's no way to configure it.  These will come eventually.

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