Re: [Etherboot-developers] NetBSD ELF preliminary support done

[Wojciech P. <wo...@te...>]

> >to be done
> >
> >0) detection if it's FreeBSD or NetBSD kernel (now assumes NetBSD when
> >both FreeBSD and NetBSD support compiled).
> >1) bootinfo (different that FreeBSD)
> >2) esym parameter - possibly same as FreeBSD must have look at it
> >
> >for 1 i will do tomorrow, seems really important.
>
> Great news.  Looking forward to the results, it would give me an excuse
> to release 5.0.9. If it's possible to automatically detect Free/NetBSD,

i will then port to 5.1 but now found code really different.

> that would be good, it would be one less #define and more important,
> fewer versions of boot code in ROMs.

yes there is. the problem is i have no idea how to detect if kernel is
freebsd or netbsd, so it really works well with defined only IMAGE_NETBSD
or IMAGE_FREEBSD, not both (that case it assumes netbsd).

>
> If FreeBSD users could confirm that it does not break anything for them,
> and NetBSD users could confirm that it works more or less (buglets can

done.

basic bootinfo already done (NetBSD know kernel name after booting), no
idea what to do with esym and i'm using it to boot my X terminal.