README revision 1.2
11.2Stsutsui$NetBSD: README,v 1.2 2023/02/04 14:38:09 tsutsui Exp $ 21.1Sdbj 31.1SdbjNeXT standalone bootblocks. 41.1SdbjRolf Grossmann, Dec 1994 51.1Sdbj 61.2StsutsuiStarted work based on files from hp300/stand. boot.c was from post-1.0 71.1Sdbjsparc/stand/boot.c, modified to work for the needs of the NeXT PROM, 81.1Sdbji.e. it wants to call the kernel, so the bootblock has to return the 91.1Sdbjentry point. 101.1Sdbj 111.1SdbjThe code does not try multiple names for te kernel, as I've seen it in 121.1Sdbjsome other architectures' boot code. (The copied code simply didn't do 131.1Sdbjthat ;)) It also doesn't prompt if the argument to boot ends with a 141.1Sdbjquestionmark '?', like the NeXT bootblock does. Do we need this? (Why 151.1Sdbjshould the bootblock as again when you can specify everything on the 161.1Sdbjboot command line?) 171.1Sdbj 181.1SdbjMost files have nothing to do with their original version anymore. The whole 191.1Sdbjcode is a mixture of my own ideas, various other netbsd code I've looked at 201.1Sdbj(like the sparc scsi code, the independent scsi code, and the needs of the 211.1Sdbjstandalone library). 221.1Sdbj 231.1SdbjIn contrast to NeXT's bootblocks, mine keep the PROM's idea of what the 241.1Sdbjboot parameters are, i.e. logical disk number (the number the disk would 251.1Sdbjget as sd*), the lun and the partition. 261.1Sdbj 271.1SdbjTODO 281.1Sdbj Make some additional improvements 29