Booting questions ....

Willem Jan Withagen wjw at withagen.nl
Fri Nov 5 02:26:01 PST 2004


Willem Jan Withagen wrote:

> Scott Long wrote:
> 
>>>> The loader has a protected mode environment.  It is apparently not all
>>>> that hard to port memtest86 into it.  I'd highly recommend doing this
>>>> rather than trying to hack up the early pmap initialization.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is that so.... I was unable to find that. :( can you give me a pointer??
>>
>>
>> Sorry, I know of some private efforts, but not any public efforts.
> 
> To bad... Would be nice, but perhaps again too much arch dependant.

I mailed with Guido, who told me he heard people talk about this on 
EuroBSDcon. So my guess is that it is still somewhere in someones perforce 
tree... Do you know about any intentions of that person to actually release 
any of the code??

--WjW



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