Actually no.
"nisse" is a nonsense name in Swedish. It's like calling the label 
"jason". :-)
Don't mean anything particular. Some people are baptized to "nisse" in 
Sweden, but in this context it's just a label. Maybe a bit whimsical.
Like it should be called something better, but we don't have a good 
suggestion at the moment.

But I don't see a reason not to change it into something more 
meaningful, like "start", or "boot", or something else, if a good 
suggestion comes along.

	Johnny


Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Mar 8, 2006, at 1:32 AM, Christopher SEKIYA wrote:
> 
>>
>> Module Name:    src
>> Committed By:    sekiya
>> Date:        Wed Mar  8 09:32:22 UTC 2006
>>
>> Modified Files:
>>     src/sys/arch/vax/boot/boot: Makefile
>>     src/sys/arch/vax/boot/xxboot: bootxx.c
>>
>> Log Message:
>> The network bootloader entry point should be nisse(), not start().   
>> Fixes a
>> very long-standing netboot issue.
> 
> 
> Presumably "nisse" has some obvious meaning in a language other than  
> English?  If so, then since English is the de-facto standard language  
> in our source tree, perhaps the name of this function should change  so 
> that it is more obvious to a larger number people who might read  this 
> code?
> 
> -- thorpej
> 

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