Re: Handling >4MB kernels on cats (Was: CVS commit: src)

[Nick Hudson <nick.hudson%gmx.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wednesday 21 January 2009 13:07:37 Andrew Doran wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:52:50PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > abs%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> > >   I'm quite taken by the idea of having a boot option to tell a
> > >   kernel to prompt to load a ramdisk after autoconfig - a
> > >   generalised version of what atari does now with its 'md2'.
> > >
> > >   - It should be completely MI, so all ports benefit
> > >   - You gain access to all compiled in kernel drivers - eg: USB
> > >   - You can drop the distinction between INSTALL and GENERIC kernels
>
> I'd object to this because we already have an MI way to do it: have the
> boot loader load miniroot.kmod.

I guess someone needs to write a boot loader for CATS.

Nick