On Monday 30 April 2007, Alexander Voropay wrote: > Hi! > > This patch add a simply YAMON services ( print() and print_count() ) > to Malta pseudo-loader. This services are requred for NetBSD to run. > > As a result, an *unmodified* NetBSD 3.0 kernel starts to work but hangs > very early on the PCNET PCI Ethernet (IRQ=0). The PCI is not initialized > and NetBSD Malta does not contains a PCI fuxup routines. > > P.S. The Malta bootloader must acts as PCI BIOS to run NetBSD 3.0 > and Linux 2.4 .
Isn't this "bootloader" getting big enough now to warrant building and shipping as a separately as an actual BIOS image? Paul
