Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>
> > > + put some conditional-compilation code in boot1.s
> > > + have a separate file, say bootrom.s, maybe in the same directory
> > > as the existing boot1
> > > + pass the modified code to the etherboot people so they can include
> > > in their source tree.
> > >
> > > in all sincerity i'd love to have this code in the FreeBSD source tree
> > > rather than have to resort to some external repository.
> >
> > My preference would be for a separate file in a separate directory,
> > more or less similar to cdldr and pxeldr; I'd be least keen on handling
> > this with conditional-compilation.
>
> ok.. do you mind then if i follow your advice and create /sys/i386/romldr/
Yuck, why don't just call it '/sys/i386/romloader/'? I thought the
cryptic 8 char name times are over by some years. With "ldr" you
save exactly 3 characters but having the full name spelled out makes
it far easier on the first glance to see what this is about.
> and put there the modified boot1, makefile etc ?
> There has been no other feedback so i think most other people is neutral.
>
> On a separate issue, and for picobsd purposes, it would be very
> convenient to have yet another boot sector type that would just
> take an ELF kernel appended to it, load into memory and start it.
> I suppose this would be a variant of boot2, but do you have any
> idea on how complex would it be to write such a beast ?
>
> If we had it, we could just 'dd' the boot code and the kernel onto
> a compactflash and boot from it without having to worry about
> creating a filesystem.
That would be really cool!
--
Andre
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