Subject: Re: single kernel for all sparcs
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Holo.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/25/1996 11:45:02
>> (From the looks of it, the reqirements of the 4c amd the 4m are the
>> same...  but this still shoots the "can easily move a disk between
>> all the different architectures" argument out of the water.)

> Running installboot with an override option prior to migration is
> hard?

Well, not compared to Sun, but it's hard compared to moving the disk
and having it "just work".

However, there's a problem: installboot doesn't have the necessary
override option, except in some circumstances.  It has -h, which leaves
the a.out header in place even on machines where it would normally be
stripped...but it has no way to force stripping the header on machines
where it would normally be left intact.

					der Mouse

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