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Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/i386/stand/pxeboot



> Log Message:
> Add support to pxeboot to allow the loading of modules.  Changes to main.c
> are taken from boot/boot2.c.
> 
> This allows an install to be started by running:
> load tftp:miniroot.kmod
> boot tftp:netbsd-GENERIC
> 
> Note that the change to dev_net.c to comment out the network shutdown,
> suggests we need to hook the network shutdown in the the common exec code.
> If the network is shutdown, it fails to reinitialise and so fails to load
> the module.

Without looking at code, can we move this code to libsa?  Otherwise
all the netboot-like loaders have to be modified to support load
modules...

Masao


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