On Thursday, September 08, 2011 6:25:23 pm Peter Grehan wrote: > > I'm proposing an extension framework for the bootinfo structure used > > to pass information from the bootstrap/loader to the kernel. Although > > I'm only proposing this for the MIPS bootinfo, it's completely > > applicable to any of them. > > > > What I propose is adding an optional platform extension structure: > > bootinfo_pext, surrounded by #ifdef BOOTINFO_PEXT > > Any reason not to put the vendor bits into another piece of loader > metadata ? That seems the extensible way to add additional info from the > loader, rather than extending bootinfo (as was the case pre-loader days).
I agree. The metadata appended to the end of the kernel is a better way to manage this. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
