At 7:42 AM -0400 7/11/00, Mohan Khurana wrote:
>will load netbsd.ram after the ofwboot.elf file is loaded.  I'm still a
>little unclear about what ofwboot.xcf does...  any idea?

ofwboot is a bootstrap loader which (unlike OF) understands gzipped 
&/or elf kernels and ffs filesystems.  Frequently it's loaded by 
bootxx which knows nothing about anything except raw OF sector IO, 
and has the sectors of ofwboot hard-coded into it by installboot. 
Alternately the ofwboot.xcf version of ofwboot can be loaded directly 
by OF versions that understand xcoff from a filesystem type that OF 
understands and it will then load the elf kernel from the ffs root 
filesystem.

Different versions of OF understand different degrees of what we'd 
like to use.  We want to have a /netbsd file in a netbsd-native 
filesystem type.  We have lots of tools to get there from lots of 
starting points, but it really hasn't settled out yet and is pretty 
confusing.


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