Hi Chris,

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> > They really can't :(( ... but the two bootloaders can easily exist next to
> > eachother so a netbsd.old kernel can be booted with the old bootloader and
> > a netbsd kernel can be booted by the new one....
>
> Couldn't you have a wrapper function that checks the magic in the bootconfig,
> depending on the contents it calls the correct bootup function, the final
> result of initarm is the same, a running kernel in the correct place in
> memory?

Well .... yes.... but is it really favourable ? I mean ... you have to run
a newly build kernel to do that anyway so why not use the new bootloader
then ?

Cheers,
Reinoud