[Cbe-oss-dev] PS3 Linux boot loader discussions

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 11:40 -0800, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Hiroyuki Machida wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I'm working on PS3/Cell Linux Project in Sony/SCEI. I'd like to
> > open up discussions about expected behaviors of PS3 Boot Loader.
> > I hope we'll have consensus to same sort of standards or conventions,
> > so that Linux Distribution Installer CD/DVDs keep work well and 
> > avoid users confuse. 
> > 
> > Please take a look attached material and give your feedbacks.
> 
> Something related to the bootloader but not mentioned in your
> message is the layout of the other os data area in flash memory.
> 
> I plan to have a standardized layout for this area so it can be
> shared between bootloaders and the kernel.  This area can be
> used by a bootloader to store a small amount of volatile data,
> which could be of benefit for read only (Live CD) based distros.
> I had some discussion of the layout with Ben and Arnd, but I did
> not make a final decision yet.  Currently, only the RTC offset is
> stored there.

Ah, I should have posted my mail after reading yours :-) You are much
welcome to decide on a format and publish a specification instead of me
doing it :-) I know we mostly agree on what it should be like anyway.

Ben.