On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 07:34:29AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2025, Greg Troxel wrote: > >Paul Goyette <p...@whooppee.com> writes: > > > >>>Yup, I think you're missing the fact that all of this relates to the > >>>ratther new-ish KERNEL_DIR option, support for which was only recently > >>>completed (by myself). KERNEL_DIR is described briefly in options(4), > >>>and it is noted in both CHANGES and UPDATING. > >> > >>Correction, KERNEL_DIR is described in mk.conf(5). It is a build.sh > >>option. > > > >Is how one interacts with it described in boot(8)? It seems like it > >should be. (The build where I went to read that man page is from May > >5.) > > I am updating x86/boot(8) now.
x86/boot(8) now states: If the specified .Pa filename does not contain an embedded slash character, the boot loader will also try .Pa filename/kernel and .Pa filename/kernel.gz . Is the emphasis on an *embedded* slash to be taken literally? I.e. are leading and trailing slashes considered embedded or not? In the former case, why specifically mention embedded and not just say "contains a slash character?" The code just checks if filename *contains* a slash. I'm wondering what is actually intended here. --chris
