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A comment on Porting NetBSD to Allwinner H3 SoCs.

Re:Porting NetBSD to Allwinner H3 SoCs by ploxiln on Monday July 10, 2017 @12:05AM (#14733305)
> We wrap the kernel in a U-Boot header that claims to be a Linux kernel; this is no accident! This tells U-Boot to use the Linux boot protocol when loading the kernel, which ensures that the DTB (loaded by U-Boot) is processed and passed to us in r2.

Hah, reminds me of Linux pretending to be recent versions of Windows to ACPI code.

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Re:Porting NetBSD to Allwinner H3 SoCs by ahoka on Monday July 10, 2017 @04:32AM (#14734237)
It's funny how Linux became the Windows of ARM.
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