Re: [Etherboot-developers] 5.1.3 make changes?

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>Crash course directly using the .img file.
>A) Just jump to the first byte of the .img. (Only a stack and return address 
>are expected)
>B) $(START16) is a intermediate prefix that does the 16bit->32bit transition,
>   and is needed, when you have a 16bit prefix.
>C) We might want to consolidate compressors and just use nrv2b (works for any
> size image
>   and decompresses in 32bit mode). The old lzhuf compressor is still present
> and all of
>   lzdisk etc still refer to it.
>D) Except for lilo I think everything works.  I just missed something there..
>.
>E) The goal of having stackable prefixes like $(DISKLOADER) $(START16) ....
>   is primarily so that the same prefix can be use weather or not compression
> is present
>   or not, simplify maintenance by decoupling those variables.
>G) Yep I left a few rough edges in 5.1.x my apologies.
>H) I was very careful in one or two cases (.rom and .dsk to be certain no rel
>ocation would be
>   in effect, so drivers that were not yet updated would still work)

Ok, lets standardise on nrv2b for 5.1.4, now's the time to do radical
stuff before anyone complains :-). I'll give the various suffixes a
workout and deprecate the lz compressor.