On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:46:55AM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Ian Fry wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:06:37PM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> > > As people may have noticed, I've recently committed a new bootloader for
> > > NetBSD/arm26.  This one is written in C, compiles under NetBSD, and shares
> > > a lot of code with all NetBSD's other bootloaders.  At the moment, the
> > > only user-visible improvement over BBBB is the ability to load gzipped
> > > kernels.
> > Presumably, the new bootloader will be able to load kernels from a NetBSD
> > partition (eventually)?
> Eventually, yes.  RISC OS makes doing this kind of thing unnecessarily
> painful, but it can (and will) be done.

Excellent!

> > Would it be possible to produce a module version, so that it could be put
> > into ROM (e.g. on some SCSI cards), and then you wouldn't need a RISC OS
> > partition at all ;-)
> That's a nice idea.  Probably the easiest way to do this would be to wrap
> it up in a module that stuck it in ResourceFS, along with a suitable
> !Boot, and then set RISC OS up to boot from ResourceFS (like NCs do).

I hadn't thouyht of doing it that way - I was thinking about letting the
module be RMEnter'd, so that you could *Configure Language Boot26, reboot,
and off you go...

Ian.