FreeBSD-5 boot code almost ported
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Sun Nov 9 17:57:56 PST 2003
I'm about 80% of the way through porting the FreeBSD-5 boot code.
Basically the entire /usr/src/sys/boot from FreeBSD-5.
It compiles! I haven't tried running it yet :-)... but I had to
bring in the new linker set code which means that I have to
incorporate Peter Wemm's 2001/06/13 03:58:40 PST commit in sys
from FreeBSD-5 which converts all the kernel linker set mechanisms
(e.g. this is what SYSCTL uses to collect all the sysctl records
together). That is straightforward but is likely going to take me
into tomorrow.
But then I'll be able to commit the whole mess and we will have the
latest and greatest boot code from FreeBSD-5, capable of loading
ELF64 kernels.
-Matt
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