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diff --git a/doc/README.plan9 b/doc/README.plan9 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d3d0e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/README.plan9 @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Plan 9 from Bell Labs kernel images require additional setup to pass +configuration information to the kernel. An environment variable named +confaddr must be defined with the same value as CONFADDR (see mem.h). +Use of this facility is optional, but should be preferable to manual +configuration. + +When booting an image, arguments supplied to the bootm command will be +copied to CONFADDR. If no arguments are specified, the contents of the +bootargs environment variable will be copied. + +If no command line arguments or bootargs are defined, CONFADDR is left +uninitialized to permit manual configuration. For example, PC-style +configuration could be simulated by issuing a fatload in bootcmd: + + # setenv bootcmd fatload mmc 0 $confaddr plan9.ini; ...; bootm + +Steven Stallion +June 2013 |