Re: kernel goes dark on boot

[Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 12:05:27PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> The other solution is to make the kernel self-relocatable: if at
> start in locore.S, we detect we are not loaded at 0x200000, then
> first relocate the kernel.  This can be done by reusing bootx64.efi's
> startprog64(). There was code for that in sys/arch/amd64/amd64/locore.S
> 1.197, for multiboot2 suppot.

I submitted a patch that does that, for review:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-amd64/2023/04/11/msg003630.html

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu%netbsd.org@localhost