Subject: Re: New bootloader
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Ian Fry <Ian.Fry@sophos.com>
List: port-arm26
Date: 08/03/2001 10:41:40
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:58:30AM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Ian Fry wrote:
> > > 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.  

Wow! That didn't take too long! :)

> 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.

You beat me to it! I was thinking about this again last night, and wondered
about storing configuration in the CMOS, and supporting configuration
commands too...

Ian.