Booting OS on PowerPC

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Sun Dec 11 22:00:53 EST 2005


Segher Boessenkool writes:

> > It expects to be (1) in 32-bit mode, (2) r3, r4 0, (3) r5 is a pointer
> > to the client interface callback, (4) r1 is a usable stack, (5) image
> > is loaded according to elf-header of zImage wrapper.
> 
> Not quite right, but close...

Milton's reply was correct for pSeries (PAPR) machines.

Paul.



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