Subject: Re: 1.6 and /dev/reload
To: None <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@montana.edu>
List: port-amiga
Date: 01/24/2003 14:35:31
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Gunther Nikl wrote:

> I just noticed that with 1.6 /dev/reload doesn't work anymore. Are there any
> plans to fix this or is it better to remove it completely? The "problem" is
> that the code assumes the kernel to be an a.out object. I don't know if its
> worth to fix it.
> I have used /dev/reload on pre-1.6 from time to time. Maybe I was the only
> one ;-)

  I've thought about seeing if I could change it to work with ELF kernels.
I've used it heavily in the past;  one Amiga I have doesn't boot from the
disk (which is why I wrote a program to execute the bootblock), and
another Amiga takes a long time to reboot.  Now, if I only had the time...