Subject: cdboot vs. bootxx_cd9660 on i386
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/11/2005 19:35:45
The more I ponder the appearance of sys/arch/i386/stand/cdboot/cdboot.S,
the more confused I get.  Can somebody explain what advantages cdboot has
over a cd9660 bootloader built analogously to bootxx_ffsv1?  That is, why
don't we build an i386 ISO9660 bootloader by adding a trivial Makefile,
stand/bootxx/bootxx_cd9660/Makefile, like this one?

  # $NetBSD$

  FS=cd9660

  .include <../Makefile.bootxx>

Thoughts?

Dave

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