Subject: Re: net boot loader
To: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-pmax
Date: 06/17/1997 22:30:46
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 12:09:14 +0900 
 Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp> wrote:

 > Try libsa and produce stand/netboot/* things.  NetBSD libsa is a
 > versatile framework to build standalone utilities without any burdens.
 > Combined with libsa and several MD hooks, it should not be a tough
 > project to make netboot (w/ any protocol you want), ufsboot and
 > tapeboot.
 > 
 > I guess forthcoming NetBSD/pmax 1.3 kernel will be still a.out, not
 > ELF.  ELF kernel and ELF ufsboot/netboot will be due same time.

Actually, for various reasons, I'm going to try and have that fixed
before 1.3... I've written Elf kernel loaders before (and have also
written Elf symbol loading and Elf ddb code), so I have a bunch of
code I can already use :-)

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