From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:27:36 +0100 To: Mark Guertin Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Would setting the CONFIG_RTC option break the powerpc kernel on your machine ? Message-ID: <20031222172736.GA9999@iliana> References: <20031217165608.GA11653@iliana> <20031217170620.GS11761@stop.crashing.org> <20031219114050.GA5650@iliana> <20031219162800.GE29266@stop.crashing.org> <20031222134504.GA5964@iliana> <20031222161042.GB10841@stop.crashing.org> <20031222162601.GA9021@iliana> <20031222163315.GC10841@stop.crashing.org> <20031222164822.GA9373@iliana> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: From: Sven Luther Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 12:02:43PM -0500, Mark Guertin wrote: > > On 22-Dec-03, at 11:48 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > >>Does it really have OpenFirmware? > > > >Yeah, and i even have the source of it (not free software though). OF > >coding is a nightmare though. > > It's not really OpenFirmware ... it's SmartFirmware is it not? it's Yes, it is based on SmartFirmware. > Slightly OT, but Sven, is there access to /dev/nvram available yet on No, there is no /dev/nvram, i don't believe there ever will be, not sure. I think there is no physical nvram for such a device in the hardware. > pegasos? I've still got a forth bootloader menu somewhere here that I > made for the pegasos, which I've never been able to load (without > massive typing at SF prompt)...but my pegasos is non functional so I > may find it this week and email the file to you to fight with :) Well, my own solution to this, is to implement the boot loader thingy directly in the OS/SF/whatever. My plan is to have a function to read a file on disk, which would contain a grub like format (i like it more than yaboot/lilo like format) and construct a boot-loader menu from this. Friendly, Sven Luther ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/