Subject: Re: pls add ofwboot.elf bin to 1.4 dist
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/26/1999 10:48:08
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Dan Winship wrote:

> > Don't we need it for net booting? It's what I'm using, and OFW is asking
> > for it by name.
> 
> Because your bootptab is telling it to?
> 
> You definitely don't need it, although I think ofwboot.elf loads
> netbsd faster than openfirmware does.

You are correct. Though I thought it was required.

I'd really recomend we include it as ofwboot is smart enough to ask for
other filenames if "netbsd" isn't there, which has been helpful when I was
making lots of debugging kernels.

Take care,

Bill