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      1  1.2  tsutsui $NetBSD: README,v 1.2 2023/02/04 14:38:09 tsutsui Exp $
      2  1.1      dbj 
      3  1.1      dbj NeXT standalone bootblocks.
      4  1.1      dbj Rolf Grossmann, Dec 1994
      5  1.1      dbj 
      6  1.2  tsutsui Started work based on files from hp300/stand. boot.c was from post-1.0
      7  1.1      dbj sparc/stand/boot.c, modified to work for the needs of the NeXT PROM,
      8  1.1      dbj i.e. it wants to call the kernel, so the bootblock has to return the
      9  1.1      dbj entry point.
     10  1.1      dbj 
     11  1.1      dbj The code does not try multiple names for te kernel, as I've seen it in
     12  1.1      dbj some other architectures' boot code. (The copied code simply didn't do
     13  1.1      dbj that ;)) It also doesn't prompt if the argument to boot ends with a
     14  1.1      dbj questionmark '?', like the NeXT bootblock does. Do we need this? (Why
     15  1.1      dbj should the bootblock as again when you can specify everything on the
     16  1.1      dbj boot command line?)
     17  1.1      dbj 
     18  1.1      dbj Most files have nothing to do with their original version anymore. The whole
     19  1.1      dbj code is a mixture of my own ideas, various other netbsd code I've looked at
     20  1.1      dbj (like the sparc scsi code, the independent scsi code, and the needs of the
     21  1.1      dbj standalone library).
     22  1.1      dbj 
     23  1.1      dbj In contrast to NeXT's bootblocks, mine keep the PROM's idea of what the
     24  1.1      dbj boot parameters are, i.e. logical disk number (the number the disk would
     25  1.1      dbj get as sd*), the lun and the partition.
     26  1.1      dbj 
     27  1.1      dbj TODO
     28  1.1      dbj  Make some additional improvements
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