Subject: Re: Using Etherboot ELF/FreeBSD loader to netboot ELF/NetBSD
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/28/2003 11:15:49
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:48:24PM +0000, Ben Harris wrote:

 > Thus, we could have something like this (formatted as for
 > <http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/elf-notes.html>):
 > 
 >     Name Size:          7
 >     Desc Size:          variable
 >     Type:               4-byte integer containing the value <<<TBA>>>
 >     Name:               "NetBSD\0" (padded to 8 bytes)
 >     Desc:               4-byte integer containing __NetBSD_Version__,
 >                         followed by
 >                         NUL-terminated string naming the
 >                         MACHINE on which the kernel should run
 >                         (padded to the next 4-byte boundary)
 > 

Bill Studenmund is working on this... 3 notes:

	* One to indicate the __NetBSD_Version__
	* One to indicate ${MACHINE}
	* One to indicate ${MACHINE_ARCH}

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>