cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c

Rink Springer rink at freebsd.org
Thu Mar 13 14:02:15 PDT 2008


On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:56:24PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> I think people still want to be able to boot kernels from boot2/gptboot rather 
> than loader in which case we'd always have to have the vm86 calls that are 
> there now.

My suggestion is to always use SMAP / bootinfo if it's there; if it's
not there, use the old-fashioned way. Otherwise, things like GRUB will
die too ...

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Rink P.W. Springer                                - http://rink.nu
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