Re: [9fans] AMD A68-N5000 kabini mother

[cinap_lenrek@felloff.net]

the bootfs.paq with all the binaries is 1.5mb. and it
has support for all the fileservers and network booting.

we just reuse the rc scripts and binaries that are already
there and not trying to make up special solutions just for
booting to save a bit of memory. and having self contained
rc environment in the kernel is great as it lets you debug
the hardware before you have a working driver. (or you can
instruct someone to run some rc commands to troubleshoot a
system without him having the capability of building a
new kernel (because theres no driver yet)).

instead of having half broken smarts in the bootloader
(like passing half the partitions from loader to kernel)
which needs to duplicate all the drivers, we can just do
that with the kernels drivers and rc scrips. the kernel
doesnt care how it got loaded. it gets to the same environment
every time regardless of who loaded it. i can boot terminal
that mounts the root filesystem over wpa encrypted wifi
network and there are no hacks there. it just runs the same
programs early that you would normally run from termrc.

if you want to make a specialized low memory overhead
kernel that will only work on your machines then you still
can by specifying different files and /boot/boot
in your kernel configuration.

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cinap