Early boot, activation, upgrades

[C. Scott Ananian]

On 7/10/07, Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2007, at 7:08 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> > In theory, we then do some basic XO networking setup (unwritten due to
> > a lack of XO which will be soon remedied) and then invoke activation
> > if necessary (Ivan will write this part?).
>
> I'll post code for this shortly.

Please do, even in an unfinished state.  I was re-reading the BitFrost
spec, and noticed the 'activation from USB key' option -- so early
boot need to have USB/IDE modules, etc.  This should be easy to get
working, but I'd like to finish 'activation' before I start 'upgrade'.
 --scott

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