Porting to Nubus PowerMacs

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Alexander Gustav Deucher wrote:
> 
> > 
> > While we are on the subject of porting, How hard would it be to
> > get linux ppc to boot on machines with NT firmware?  Does
> > anyone know why this firmware is so problematic? Is there
> > anywhere one could find documentation on it, etc.

Is this Open Firmware or some derivative of PPCbug?? I though NT required
Open Firmware (which would mean the preploader wouldn't work too well)

> 
> This firmware might even try to boot the image in little endian mode,
> handling the setting of the processor is rather simple, but resetting the
> host bridge to big endian operation might be very complex and HW
> dependant. 
> 
> Could you try the zImage and the preploader on my ftp site:
> 
> 	ftp://vcorr1.iram.es/pub/zImage-2.2.0-pre5
> 	ftp://vcorr1.iram.es/pub/preploader.tgz
> 
> (preploader is an experimental early boot code which will take your
> /usr/src/vmlinux and build a zImage ready to boot from 0x41 partition). It
> could be hacked to spit out a lot of info about what the state of the
> machine is when the loaded image gets control.
> 
> 	Gabriel.
> 
> 
> 

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