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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:09:05 -1000
From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pc boot and ether drivers
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> The main complication is that the Plan 9 bootstraps also read and
> parse plan9.ini and leave the results in a known place for the loaded
> kernel.  I suppose that code could be moved into the kernels.

Changing them to cmd line arguments should be fairly straightforward,
no?  Dont most the other platforms (other than "386") get by
without a .ini file?

Tim N.