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Re: Almost ready inline kernel booter



Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 00:28:04 -0500
>  Daniel Jacobowitz <youngdrow%geocities.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> No.  The read functions in libsa automatically DTRT if you attempt to
> load a gzip'd kernel image.  No additional changes are necessary.  If
> your boot block attempts to read either a netbsd or a netbsd.gz, the
> right thing will happen.  Pretty cool, huh?  :-)


Woah - VERY much so.  I'll simply use that and add it to my kernel 
loader eventually.

Although - where does it get it its memory? zcalloc eventually calls 
alloc, and the memory has not yet been claimed at this point....


Don't bother to explain if you don't want to :).  This is where 
linuxppc's coffboot starts mapping with the BATs.


Dan.



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