some booting help

[David Weis]

We've started again with the MCA rs/6000's and I needed a bit of help. A
little background on the machine-
It's a rs6000 7011-250 with a 601 PowerPC processor
The io ports on the MCA bus are addressed through a bus unit controller
with a BUID of 0x20. If I wanted to write something to 0x3f8 on the mca
bus, I would have to set up the segment register, etc, correct? Is this
something with enough overhead that I can't realistically do it for every
io port access?

We do have some code by Andrew Richardson that will make a valid boot disk
and print 987 to the display on the front. It's available at
http://www.sjdjweis.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000005&topic_id=1&topic=RS%2f6000%20Linux

Any help is appreciated!

dave


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