Re: Multiboot for amd64?

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Jan 7, 2010, at 8:01 PM, Grégoire Sutre wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> There is multiboot support for i386, which is great.  But i386 seems to be 
> the only architecture with multiboot support.  Are there plans to add 
> multiboot support to amd64?
> 
I didn't know it was nominally unsupported; it's been working very well for me 
on 5.0.x for several months, in a Xen configuration:

menu=Xen (256MB):load /netbsd-DOM0;multiboot /xen.gz dom0_mem=256M console=com1 
com1=9600,8n1


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