Re: kern/13435: libsa loadfile() loads binary or kernel at wrong address

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On May 21, 2021, at 6:05 PM, David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> however, I'm also wondering why we still have code for loading a.out
> kernel images; maybe the right thing to do is remove it and close the
> PR :-)

There are legacy platforms that still, due to firmware restrictions, require loading of a.out.  At least for those platforms, it might still be handy to be able to load a single kernel image either from a boot loader or from the firmware directly.

-- thorpej