knowledge) earlier, and gather all information needed earlier. Mark the
init code carefully re: when it can print stuff out, when it can expect
the firmware to stop working, etc. Be more careful about using the PROM
console and other PROM facilities, and hint that in the future all use
of firmware/boot program callbacks by the kernel should go away (since
the world may not be mapped the way the firmware/boot program wants!).
number passed by the boot block into a register, change the kernel's
bootinfo handing so that it always uses bootinfo to get bootinfo-ish values
(filling them in if the boot blocks didn't pass them), and make versioning
a small bit more sane.
at least 8-). Add structure offssets for structure members, so we
know how much space we're using. Make the version in the bootinfo
structure be a u_long, so there's no implicit padding in the structure.
Add a few more pointers to the bootinfo v1 structure, which will all
be set to NULL for now.
This is a bit of a hack, as-is, since there's a lot of code that's
outright duplicated between the various files and because it doesn't
support detection of a network device as the root device. The
latter's not a problem yet, because NetBSD/Alpha can't load the kernel
from the network to begin with.
Support for AXPpci CPUs,
Support for AlphaStation 600 CPUs,
new boot block structure, which requires an 'installboot'
program and works a lot like the NetBSD/sparc boot blocks.
simonb