> BTW, if anyone's looking for a way to contribute, helping Nigel out with
> improving the booter would certainly be cool.  Nigel's doing well, but
> I expect he wouldn't turn any contributions down.

	Always happy to. You write it, I will integrate, quality assure,
test, ship and support it. What a bargain :-)


...
> 	1) Support for BOOTP/NFS/TFTP kernel loading via MacTCP and/or
> 	   Open Transport.

	I have no knowledge/examples/doco of MacOS networking code, so
this would be most useful.


> 	2) Updates to handle the latest filesystems.

	I am working on integrating more of the kernel source code, and
particularly the ufs/ffs/ext2fs filesystem code, into the Booter at the
moment. I am trying to use the kernel source without modification so
that it can easily be updated as bugs are fixed in the kernel.

	I hit a snag with CodeWarrior 9 trying to compile this from the
m68k/endian.h header file:

typedef u_int32_t	in_addr_t;
typedef u_int16_t	in_port_t;

__BEGIN_DECLS
in_addr_t	htonl __P((in_addr_t)) __attribute__((__const__));
in_port_t	htons __P((in_port_t)) __attribute__((__const__));
in_addr_t	ntohl __P((in_addr_t)) __attribute__((__const__));
in_port_t	ntohs __P((in_port_t)) __attribute__((__const__));
__END_DECLS


	Anyone know what this means to GNU C, and how to simulate it?


> One way to get some of this might be:
> 
> 	3) Support for a two-stage boot--put a boot block in the
> 	   filesystem, enough information to load that into a boot block
> 	   at the head of the partition, and just use that to load the
> 	   boot loader.

	Good idea. I think we still need a lot of the stuff from the
MacOS (i.e. all of the environment variables that the Booter passes to
the kernel), but once that information has been produced for a particular
Mac setup, it could be written onto the disk for the boot loader to use.

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