Re: bootloader cleanup

["David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>]

Ok, I tried it as instructed.  Works great!

David Ross
dross%pobox.com@localhost


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Izumi Tsutsui" <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
To: <dross%pobox.com@localhost>
Cc: <port-atari%NetBSD.org@localhost>; <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: bootloader cleanup


> David Ross wrote:
>
> > This boot.atari is 6,716 bytes whereas the one on my system already is 
> > 7,524
> > bytes.  Maybe this one is intended for IDE disks? If there are different
> > versions, I would need the SCSI one.
>
> No, boot.atari is common among sd and wd.
>
> The difference of them (BIOS setup?) seems handled by
> the primary sdboot and wdboot, but they don't use
> stand alone libraries so there is no binary change on them.
>
> The newer boot.atari is smaller because the previous MD libsa
> uses m68k optimized (and a bit larger) asm string functions
> (memcpy, strlen etc.) in src/common/lib/libc/arch/m68k/string
> and MI libsa uses simple and size-optimized C versions in
> src/common/lib/libc/string, I guess.
>
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui