diff --git a/src/include/rom/read_bytes.h b/src/include/rom/read_bytes.h
index e786a31e65..3c50d25496 100644
--- a/src/include/rom/read_bytes.h
+++ b/src/include/rom/read_bytes.h
@@ -5,8 +5,18 @@
 
 typedef long byte_offset_t;
 
+typedef struct tag_t {
+	char signature[5];
+	unsigned char block_count;
+	unsigned long length;
+	char data[6];
+} __attribute__ ((packed)) tag_head;
+
 struct stream {
 	int (*init)(void);
+	int (*init_tags)(void);
+	void (*get_tags)(void *buf);
+	void (*load_tag)(int tag);
 	byte_offset_t (*read)(void *vdest, byte_offset_t count);
 	byte_offset_t (*skip)(byte_offset_t count);
 	void (*fini)(void);
diff --git a/src/rom/rom_fill_inbuf.c b/src/rom/rom_fill_inbuf.c
index 8398a306d0..164a73dd2a 100644
--- a/src/rom/rom_fill_inbuf.c
+++ b/src/rom/rom_fill_inbuf.c
@@ -7,15 +7,21 @@
 #include <string.h>
 
 #ifndef ZKERNEL_START
-#define ZKERNEL_START 0xfff80000
+#define ZKERNEL_START 0xfff00000
 #endif
 
 #ifndef ZKERNEL_MASK
 #define ZKERNEL_MASK 0x0000ffff
 #endif
 
+#ifndef _ROMTOP
+#define _ROMTOP 0xfffffff0
+#endif
+
 /* The inbuf copy option has been killed... */
 
+#define K64 (64 * 1024)
+
 static unsigned char *zkernel_start = (unsigned char *)ZKERNEL_START;
 static unsigned long zkernel_mask = ZKERNEL_MASK;
 
@@ -23,23 +29,20 @@ static unsigned char *nvram;
 static int block_count;
 static int block_offset;
 
-#define K64 (64 * 1024)
+static unsigned int max_block = (_ROMTOP - ZKERNEL_START)/K64;
 
-static int init_bytes(void)
+
+static int init_bytes(void);
+
+int rom_seek(unsigned long int where)
 {
-	block_count = 0;
-	block_offset = 0;
-	nvram = zkernel_start;
+	block_count = where / K64;
+	block_offset = where - (block_count * K64);
+	nvram = zkernel_start + (K64 * block_count);
 
-	printk_debug("%6d:%s() - zkernel_start:0x%08x  "
-		"zkernel_mask:0x%08x\n",
-		__LINE__, __FUNCTION__,
-		zkernel_start, zkernel_mask);
-
-	return 0;
+	return(where);
 }
 
-
 static void fini_bytes(void)
 {
 	return;
@@ -56,14 +59,9 @@ static byte_offset_t rom_read_bytes(int cp, void *vdest, byte_offset_t count)
 			block_count++;
 			nvram+= K64;
 		}
-		if (!(zkernel_mask & (1 << block_count))) {
-			printk_debug("%6d:%s() - skipping block %d\n",
-				__LINE__, __FUNCTION__, block_count);
-			continue;
-		}
-		if (block_count > 31) {
-			printk_emerg( "%6d:%s() - overflowed source buffer\n",
-				__LINE__, __FUNCTION__);
+		if (block_count > max_block) {
+			printk_emerg( "%6d:%s() - overflowed source buffer. max_block = %u\n",
+				__LINE__, __FUNCTION__, max_block);
 			return bytes;
 		}
 		length = K64 - block_offset;
@@ -90,8 +88,132 @@ static byte_offset_t read_bytes(void *vdest, byte_offset_t count)
 	return rom_read_bytes(1, vdest, count);
 }
 
+static int tag_count=0;
+static int tag_blocks=0;
+unsigned long tags[32];
+
+void rom_load_tag(int tag) 
+{
+	tag_head current;
+	int i;
+
+	printk_info("Loading tag %u @ %08x\n", tag, tags[tag]);
+
+	if(tag < tag_count) {
+		rom_seek( tags[tag] );
+		read_bytes(&current, sizeof(tag_head) );
+
+		printk_info("Tag contents: ");
+		for(i=0; i<16; i++)
+			printk_info("%02x ", ( (char *) &current)[i] );
+
+		printk_info("\n");
+
+		printk_info("TAG block count = %u\n", current.block_count);
+
+		skip_bytes( current.block_count * sizeof(tag_head) );
+	}
+
+}
+
+int strncmp(char *subject, char *target, int count)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for(i=0; i<count; i++)
+		if(subject[i] != target[i])
+			break;
+
+	if ( i == count)
+		return(0);
+
+	return(subject[i] - target[i]);
+
+}
+
+void rom_get_tags(void *buffer)
+{
+	int i;
+	tag_head *ptr = buffer;
+	int count;
+
+	for(i=0; i<tag_count; i++) {
+		rom_seek(tags[i]);
+		read_bytes(ptr, sizeof(tag_head));
+//		printk_info("copying tag at %08x, with block_count=%u to %08x\n", tags[i], ptr->block_count, (int) ptr);
+		count = ptr->block_count;
+		ptr++;
+		if(count) {
+			read_bytes(ptr, sizeof(tag_head) * count);
+			ptr += count;
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+
+int search_tags(void)
+{
+	tag_head current;
+
+
+	rom_seek(0);
+	tag_count=0;
+	tag_blocks=0;
+
+	printk_info("Searching for %u byte tags\n", sizeof(tag_head) );
+
+	if(!tag_count) {
+		while( read_bytes(&current, sizeof(tag_head)) == sizeof(tag_head) ) {
+			if(strncmp(current.signature, "$TAG$", 5))
+				continue;
+
+			// we found a tag, now look at it
+			tag_blocks++;
+			tags[tag_count++] = K64 * block_count + block_offset - sizeof(tag_head);
+
+			printk_info("Found tag at %08x block_count = %u\n", tags[tag_count-1], current.block_count);
+
+			if(current.block_count >0) {
+				skip_bytes( current.block_count * sizeof(tag_head) );
+				tag_blocks += current.block_count;
+			}
+
+		}
+	}
+
+	if(tag_count) {
+		rom_load_tag(0);
+	} else 
+		rom_seek(0);
+
+	return(tag_blocks);
+}
+
+static int init_bytes(void)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	block_count = 0;
+	block_offset = 0;
+	nvram = zkernel_start;
+
+	printk_debug("%6d:%s() - zkernel_start:0x%08x  "
+		"zkernel_mask:0x%08x\n",
+		__LINE__, __FUNCTION__,
+		zkernel_start, zkernel_mask);
+
+	i = search_tags();
+
+	printk_info("init_bytes found %u tags\n", i);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static struct stream rom_stream __stream = {
 	.init = init_bytes,
+	.init_tags = search_tags,
+	.get_tags = rom_get_tags,
+	.load_tag = rom_load_tag,
 	.read = read_bytes,
 	.skip = skip_bytes,
 	.fini = fini_bytes,