pivot_root() and FreeBSD

[Edward Tomasz Napierała]

On 0803T1745, Julian Elischer wrote:
> On 8/3/15 3:13 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > .. and it won't work for upgrading routers, as the MIPS things don't use loader.
> 
> it can also be compiled into the kernel...
> I've done that... a picobsd filesystem linked into the kernel

Would be better to just make it work for MIPS :-)

How do MIPS machines boot?  Are they able to load the kernel and modules?
If so, making it load md image shouldn't be that hard - it's just like
loading modules, just marking them as non-kld type.