Ramdisk support

Aditya Godbole aag.lists at gmail.com
Mon Nov 20 10:01:50 UTC 2006


On 11/16/06, Gary Jennejohn <garyj at jennejohn.org> wrote:

> Unfortunately, u-boot makes heavy use of Linux' support for rootdev, etc.,
> which AFAIK is missing in FreeBSD. It heavily depends on passing lots of
> necessary information in the Linux command line to influence the boot
> process.
>
> BTW do you have any patches which you could contribute, or have you already
> done that?
>

Right now, I'm taking the kernel command line from u-boot and
performing appropriate actions in my bootstrap code.
On the freebsd-ppc list we are talking about possible ways to remove
dependencies on a particular bootloader.

Cheers.
--
aditya


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