> I think some platforms would have a very tough time passing in the
> kernel name as their loaders are firmware.  Maybe this could be
> circumvented by an intermediary loader.  The intermediary loader
> could do other things as well, such as loading a kernel that's in a
> different OMF than the firmware loader expects (ELF on Suns,
> Alphas, and MIPS).  Yes, I know, got off on a tangent. :)

I'm not aware of _any_ platform on which NetBSD is loaded directly by
the firmware.  On some, it can sometimes use the native boot blocks,
but that's a much different thing.


> >The only question then is how to pass the image to mount_kernfs....
> 
> Easy, once you know the name of the loaded kernel.

Oh, yeah, and you know that it's not been moved since booted.



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