From 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Fri Jun 15 06:57:25 2001 Received: from mailhost.lanl.gov (mailhost.lanl.gov [128.165.3.12]) by acl.lanl.gov (8.11.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id f5FCvPp3092931; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 06:57:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mailproxy1.lanl.gov (mailproxy1.lanl.gov [128.165.0.26]) by mailhost.lanl.gov (8.10.1/8.10.1/(cic-5, 6/12/00)) with ESMTP id f5FCvO600302; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 06:57:24 -0600 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mailproxy1.lanl.gov (8.11.4/8.11.4/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id f5FCvOE08147; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 06:57:24 -0600 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.20.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 0728419A25; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:57:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nautilus.dat.escet.urjc.es (nautilus.dat.escet.urjc.es [212.128.1.37]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with SMTP id 5CF95199F0 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:56:58 -0400 (EDT) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] change to bitsy/devsac.c to use the new bootldr From: "F.J.Ballesteros" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-vevowdrhwhhqrwknpfrwmxsanz" Message-Id: <20010615125658.5CF95199F0@mail.cse.psu.edu> Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:07:29 +0200 Status: RO X-Status: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-vevowdrhwhhqrwknpfrwmxsanz Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think that would be nice. In fact, I was thinking of just adding a newramdisk: target to the mkfile, w/ something like... cat <{echo -n xxxx} oldramdisk >newramdisk On the other hand, wouldn't it be better to encourage people to use the new boot loader (since otherwise they might break their real power on switch)? Probably you know better than me which option is likely to be more adequate. BTW, I am very grateful to the one(s) who decided that sac.fs would be a tar file. In general, I'm grateful to you all for keeping Plan 9 so clean. It is orders of magnitude easier to modify/adapt it than it is for the other systems I've seen. --upas-vevowdrhwhhqrwknpfrwmxsanz Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu> Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu (postfix@psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by gsyc.escet.urjc.es (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id OAA28097; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:42:32 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: gsyc.escet.urjc.es: Host postfix@psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6] claimed to be mail.cse.psu.edu Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.30.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 0F45E19A23; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:42:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com (ampl.com [204.178.31.2]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with SMTP id 30DBC19A12 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:41:14 -0400 (EDT) From: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com To: nemo@gsyc.escet.urjc.es, 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] change to bitsy/devsac.c to use the new bootldr MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010615124114.30DBC19A12@mail.cse.psu.edu> Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:41:11 -0400 Might this be a better change, i.e., so it'll work both with both the old and new bootldr's? p = (uchar*)Flash_tar+4; data = tarlookup(p, sacfs, &i); if(data == 0) { p = (uchar*)Flash_tar; data = tarlookup(p, sacfs, &i); if(data == 0) { print("devsac: could not find file: %s\n", sacfs); return; } } --upas-vevowdrhwhhqrwknpfrwmxsanz--