Paul Brook wrote: > 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?
I committed the patch because it allows to run a number of simple standalone programs available for Malta. But I'd say, that's it in terms of features. Anything more should go in a separate binary. Thiemo
