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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
Date: Mon,  3 Jun 2013 11:41:28 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ARM and u-boot
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> there's something just a little annoying about having a boot
> loader that is much larger than the kernel than you're loading.

Thanks to /dev/reboot you can alternatively use plan 9 itself
as a loader, thus guaranteeing the loader is no bigger than
the kernel.  I've found this useful when loading requires a
bit of extra sophistication (eg booting over wifi).