Still possible to directly boot without loader?
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 26 19:18:22 UTC 2006
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:38:24AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 26 October 2006 10:42, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 10:28:09AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > boot2 should do whatever loader does.
> > >
> > But this would be a regression, since loader(8) does the following,
> > in the ELF32 case:
> >
> > : 0 edoofus:ttyp2:/sys/boot/i386/libi386 >grep -w entry elf32_freebsd.c
> > : vm_offset_t entry, bootinfop, modulep, kernend;
> > : entry = ehdr->e_entry & 0xffffff;
> > : printf("Start @ 0x%lx ...\n", entry);
> > : __exec((void *)entry, boothowto, bootdev, 0, 0, 0, bootinfop, modulep, kernend);
>
> Ah, ok. Make them both just mask the top 8 bits then. :)
>
OK, I backed out your change to boot2.c.
Cheers,
--
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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