it from the uboot net_init() implementation. The routine uses the standard
U-Boot env vars plus a freebsd-specific variable named "rootpath" (the
corresponding u-boot variable for that would be "bootfile" except that it
refers to ubldr, so a new name was needed to communicate the path to ubldr).
This allows ubldr to load a kernel from nfs without requiring a dhcp or
bootp server to provide the server ip and rootpath parameters.