Subject: Re: A mess of summaries...
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/03/1999 12:03:37
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> This all leaves me with some lingering questions:
> 
> 1) Is NetBSD using the L2 cache on my G3 daughtercard? How would I
> know?
> 
> 2) Does /netbsd need to be executable? If so, why? (Is there even a
> file system around when it's loaded into RAM? A bootstrapped one?)

Not really, AFAIK. The second stage boot loader, ofwboot, knows how to
load a file off of a filesystem. The filesystem's not "around" in that
it's not mounted the same way it's mounted when the system's running, but
ofwboot can read it.