1$NetBSD: README,v 1.2 2023/02/04 14:38:09 tsutsui Exp $
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3NeXT standalone bootblocks.
4Rolf Grossmann, Dec 1994
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6Started work based on files from hp300/stand. boot.c was from post-1.0
7sparc/stand/boot.c, modified to work for the needs of the NeXT PROM,
8i.e. it wants to call the kernel, so the bootblock has to return the
9entry point.
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11The code does not try multiple names for te kernel, as I've seen it in
12some other architectures' boot code. (The copied code simply didn't do
13that ;)) It also doesn't prompt if the argument to boot ends with a
14questionmark '?', like the NeXT bootblock does. Do we need this? (Why
15should the bootblock as again when you can specify everything on the
16boot command line?)
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18Most files have nothing to do with their original version anymore. The whole
19code is a mixture of my own ideas, various other netbsd code I've looked at
20(like the sparc scsi code, the independent scsi code, and the needs of the
21standalone library).
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23In contrast to NeXT's bootblocks, mine keep the PROM's idea of what the
24boot parameters are, i.e. logical disk number (the number the disk would
25get as sd*), the lun and the partition.
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27TODO
28 Make some additional improvements
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