new OF: how can we use it?

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Thu, 27 May 1999, Tom Rini wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 27 May 1999, Joel Klecker wrote:
> 
> > At 15:39 -0400 1999-05-27, Tom Rini wrote:
> > >On Thu, 27 May 1999, Brad Midgley wrote:
> > >> don't you think it would be a great help to the success of linux on
> > >> powermac if we could make the kind of elf binary that the new open
> > >> firmware loads?
> > >[neat ideas nusked]
> > >> what remains to be done? is the problem well understood/documented?
> > >
> > >It might be the text segments at the start.  Basically we need to see how
> > >darwin and netbsd/macppc are linked and what they do that we don't (or
> > >that we do and don't need to).  This is of coruse only my understanding,
> > >from a dozen emails w/ adrian sun (I have access to an iMac, he
> > >wants/wanted to fix it).
> > 
> > NetBSD/macppc kernels have the .note section that OF wants, 
> > Linux/powerpc kernels do not.
> > 
> > <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/sys/arch
> > /powerpc/powerpc/ofwmagic.S>
> > 
> > See also vger: linux/arch/ppc/chrpboot/{mknote.c,Makefile}.
> 
> Hmm.  So has anybody tried booting a CHRP-specific 2.3.x kernel on a B&W
> or iMac? :)

Just tried using the latest vger 'chrpboot', which makes a zImage, from a
Pmac kernel, and got 'gunzipping...'
'Default Catch 0900'  (which is the decrementer exception)

FYI, netbooting uses standard bootp and tftp 8->


> 
> ---
> Tom Rini (TR1265)
> http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
> 

> 

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