Re: Path to kmods

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 01:24:21PM -0500, Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc. wrote:
> >And what if you load 'netbsd.old' or 'netbsd.test' from the boot
> >loader ?
> 
> 
> As he said, "if we change /netbsd to a directory"...  :-)
> 
> The final-stage boot loader need only check if the path given is a  
> directory or a normal file -- if it's not a directory then everything  
> works as before.
> 
> Otherwise the boot loader could append "/kernel" or something similar  
> to the path given and then load that as the first "module".

But how does the kernel finds the right set of modules after that ?
The kernel may not even be on a filesystem accessible from the kernel !

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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