Miod talks about HP/PA boot blocks

Contributed by Janne Johansson on 2025-12-19 from the HPPA me up before you go-og dept.

Veteran OpenBSD developer Miod Vallat (miod@) has written another deep dive article on porting our favorite operating system to a new platform and maintaining the code, this time the OpenBSD/hppa platform.

The piece titled The scariest boot loader code certainly lives up to the title!

If you're the right type of person, you will know to set aside a goodly chunk of time for this piece.

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