Ben Harris wrote:
> In article <200007061206.e66C6MY03203@saruman.ics.muni.cz> you write:
> >Couple of issues: amigappc,arm26,mac68k don't seem to pass/recognize
> >any boot flags. Is the info passed other way ?
> 
> arm26 passes a binary structure from the bootloader to the kernel.  Look in
> sys/arch/arm26/include/boot.h.

Ah, I should have grepped for 'howto' even for arm26 :) Would following
be right for arm26 ?

Index: boot/BBBB,fd1
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/syssrc/sys/arch/arm26/boot/BBBB,fd1,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 BBBB,fd1
--- BBBB,fd1	2000/05/09 21:55:57	1.1
+++ BBBB,fd1	2000/07/06 15:53:46
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
           WHEN "a" : howto% = howto% OR &01 : REM RB_ASKNAME
           WHEN "s" : howto% = howto% OR &02 : REM RB_SINGLE
           WHEN "d" : howto% = howto% OR &40 : REM RB_KDB
+          WHEN "v" : howto% = howto% OR &1000 : REM RB_VERBOSE
           WHEN " ", "" : done% = TRUE
           OTHERWISE : ERROR EXT 0, "Bad option: " + LEFT$(A$, 1)
         ENDCASE

> Well, in sys/arch/vax/vax/subr.s, the VAX seems to get its boothowto from
> R11 on old bootloaders:
> 
>         movl    r11,_boothowto                  # Howto boot (single etc...)
> 
> On later bootloaders, it's passed in the RPB (in rpb_bootr5) (see locore.c):
> 
>         boothowto = prpb->rpb_bootr5;

Well, I did found this, just couldn't find where either r11 or prpb->rpb_bootr5
is initialized, i.e. if there is way for user to specify boot flags
similar way to i386's : boot FILE -s
Okay, I'll look a bit further :)

Jaromir
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