MacOS X and yaboot wars.

[Timothy A. Seufert]

At 12:16 PM +0200 9/23/00, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
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>>Interestingly enough, I noticed this tidbit in their BootX script:
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>>if 0 0 then
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>>Implying that they may be doing something with ext2 support.
>
>You "tidbit" was empty ;)

It sure didn't look that way when I wrote it in Eudora!  And in fact
it made it through to Ethan Benson, who was CC'ed.  Maybe the mailing
list software mangled it.

Bizarre.

>They have indeed ext2 support in their "BootX". They have ELF support.
>They have almost everything needed to boot the Linux kernel as well. I
>need to implement the necessary support in the kernel itself to get it
>working.

Cool!  Do you know if their "BootX" is under their open source license?

   Tim Seufert

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