on to the kernel. The boot program passes a boot args string plus
additional information like so:
/pci/scsi@3/disk@0,0:1/netbsd -s<NUL><esym><tag>
The post-<NUL> values are:
<esym> end of the kernel symbol table (32-bits)
<tag> machine type tag (32-bits)
NetBSD/powerpc boot program. Highligts:
- Rearrange a bit so that we can sanely add boot programs for
non-OpenFirmware systems.
- Add support for loading compressed kernels (for booting from
1.44M floppies).
- Add support for loading Elf kernels (Elf is the new standard format
for NetBSD/powerpc). (XXX Don't load symbols right now - the code
to do it is there, but I don't particularly like how space for the
symbol table is allocated; I will revisit this soon'ish).
Some of the stuff (e.g., rarpd, bootpd, dhcpd etc., libsa) still will
only support Ethernet. Tcpdump itself should be ok, but libpcap needs
lot of work.
For the detailed change history, look at the commit log entries for
the is-newarp branch.
on indirect-config busses a (permanent) softc that they could share
between 'match' and 'attach' routines:
Define __BROKEN_INDIRECT_CONFIG so that old autoconfiguration
interfaces are used, until drivers are converted to use the new
interfaces (actually, converted back to use the _older_ interfaces)
which prohibit indirect configuration devices from receiving a softc
in their match routine that they can share with their attach routine.
Lets users over-ride with makeoptions COPTS="..." in kernel config files.
Leave `mandatory' flags (like -msoft-float which on m68k enforces no
FP in kernel) in CFLAGS.
thorpej