Re: Almost ready inline kernel booter

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%nas.nasa.gov@localhost>]

On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 00:28:04 -0500 
 Daniel Jacobowitz <youngdrow%geocities.com@localhost> wrote:

 > Eventually, I will try to add libz support.  Thank you for pointing out 
 > to me that libz was what I was talking about; I knew it rang a bell - I 
 > see it every time I link ofwboot, even though it is currently unused (? 
 > It have a function I don't know about?).

No.  The read functions in libsa automatically DTRT if you attempt to
load a gzip'd kernel image.  No additional changes are necessary.  If
your boot block attempts to read either a netbsd or a netbsd.gz, the
right thing will happen.  Pretty cool, huh?  :-)

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