At 11:42 pm 16/3/96, kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu wrote:
>4) Having the kernel know what boot kernel image was used. How does
>OSF/1 do this? How about pass the name into the kernel as an arg on
>bootup (by the loader)? Then pass that name to libkvm. Then how do you
>deal with /dev/reload? Not 100% surefire, but it's an idea?
>

I might be way off-base here, but would it make sense to have the kernel
image accessible from /kern/image (for example)?

The only question then is how to pass the image to mount_kernfs....

Presumably this is in aid of programs like ps and so forth not being
hard-wired to /netbsd...

Jules

(I would have carried this discussion to tech-kern, except I don't read it ;-(


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