On Fri, 16 May 2025, Christoph Badura wrote:
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.
A leading slaash is ignored. Any other slash (traiing or embedded)
will prevent looking for filename/kernel and filename/kernel.gz
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