> I'm looking at how easy it would be to boot the x86-64 version of the 
> Barrelfish OS on m5 (http://www.barrelfish.org/ says more about the project, 
> although the most recent source release is now getting a bit out of date).

I'll first say that this would be really cool!

> My initial plan is to extend system.cc to support a simple boot loader for 
> modules, parsing the Barrelfish menu.lst file, loading the modules, and 
> creating the multiboot structures to describe what's been loaded.  Does that 
> sound plausible?

Gabe has given detail in his e-mails, but I should say that M5 itself
already supports directly loading multiple modules into memory.
Several platforms already do this.  My guess is that we could make
this a little bit more generic and then all of the menu.lst parsing
and loading could simply be done from a python script.

  Nate
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