[haiku] Re: Naming suggestion for Haiku boot loader
- From: Justin Stressman <jstressman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:33:04 -0400
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, fully agreed. To be honest, this thread isn't really going anywhere.
> So far it looks like none of the committers think the idea to change the
> name of bootman is hot, so it probably won't happen.
>
Well, after learning what a "bikeshed"[1] was in the "[haiku] How Haiku
makes decisions"[2] thread, I got to see the principle in action yet again
in this thread and I feel embarrassed for having taken part in it before I
was enlightened. So at least it got to serve as a humbling learning
experience.
Live and learn. Hopefully the others read about the "bikeshed" principle and
learn the same lesson I did.
As someone else pointed out... there is already a "haiku_loader" as the 2nd
stage loader and "bootman" is the 1st stage loader (in the MBR). The first
stage loader (bootman) passes things off to the second stage (
/system/haiku_loader ).
See for more info: http://www.haiku-os.org/node/3401 -- "Haiku Bootstrap
Architecture" (could be updated to include bootman info and clarify wording
a bit?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootman
(PS: I'm perfectly fine with "bootman" and "haiku_loader" staying named as
they are for what they are. I just liked the idea of trying to make a
forklift icon and didn't think things through. I may still try to make it
just for the learning experience.)
[1]
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=506636+517178+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-hackers/19991003.freebsd-hackers
[2] //www.freelists.org/post/haiku/How-Haiku-makes-decisions,6
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