Re: [PATCH] FreeBSD 64-bit kernel support

[Chip Panarchy]

+1

Beautiful!

Thanks a heap Bean...

Haven't tried it yet, but will!

Exactly what I've been requested, thanks once again!

Panarchy

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:27 AM, phcoder <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bean kindly allowed me to mess with this patch. So here comes an improved
> version. I moved helpers out of the kernels. Because of how FreeBSD expects
> the initial virtual memory mapping only first GB of physical memory is
> accessible so it was required to use of trampoline technique.
> Bean wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patch allows you to load amd64 freebsd kernel directly, here is an
>> example:
>>
>> set root=(hd0,1,a)
>> freebsd /boot/kernel/kernel
>> freebsd_loadenv /boot/device.hints
>> set FreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
>> boot
>>
>> Test successfully on FreeBSD 7.1 amd64.
>>
>>
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