This eliminates the necessity to build a separate INSTALL kernel which holds mdimage inside.
MODULAR miniroot.kmod would be benefitial to small embedded NetBSD products. miniroot.kmod is, in essense, a kind of "root on md0" switch. MODULAR-aware LIBSA can choose to switch the target md0 image whose content is stripped down userland. In these days, there is a growing marketing push of microSD for embedded products. Some SoC are even able to boot directly from socketed multi-giga-byte microSD media, removing soldered down NOR flash from PCB. When NetBSD LIBSA bootloader is made right, miniroot.kmod can be stored in the store as well as kernel image. It may become a standard way to make commercial embedded NetBSD product on HW which has microSD FAT store as a primary stroage. Toru Nishiumra / ALKYL Technology