On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:10:59 -0800 Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com wrote:
It's not that I'm really objecting to the new interface -- it does seem to be more well-designed than the old jumptable stuff -- but it's just that I don't understand why you need this functionality in the first place, just to be able to boot an OS. When you have a kernel image as well as possibly other related images loaded into memory, along with a device tree providing detailed information about the hardware, why do you need a syscall interface on top of everything?
[apologies: I appear to be very verbose this monday morning...]
That makes two of us, doesn't it? ;-)
<snip lots of useful information about how the FreeBSD loader works>
Thanks for explaining this. I think I understand better why this new interface is needed now.
However, I think this sort of information would be very useful to have in the changelog -- adding a new external interface is not something that should be done lightly, and a good explanation of _why_ the new interface is needed is IMO very important to have on the record.
Haavard